function-pipe

Functional composition for JS

Motivation

Javascript is a very powerful language. Why not make it even more powerful with a simple functional composition tool? Function pipe allows you to create functions by combining other functions, just like lego blocks.

Features

• Supports Promises or any mixture of sync and async functions
• First function in the pipe can accept multiple arguments
• Peturns a promise when there is a promise in the pipe
• Works synchronously when all the parts of the pipe are synchronous
• Flattens nested arrays of functions

Installation

npm install function-pipe

Usage

import pipe from 'function-pipe'
 
const toUppercase = string => string.toUpperCase()
const reverse = string => string.split('').reverse().join('')
const splitInWords = string => string.split(' ')
 
// Simple use
const pipe1 = pipe(toUppercase, reverse, splitInWords)
 
console.log(pipe1('wow such very much doge!'))
// -> [ '!EGOD', 'HCUM', 'YREV', 'HCUS', 'WOW' ]
 
pipe1(Promise.resolve('wow such very much doge!'))
  .then(console.log)
// -> [ '!EGOD', 'HCUM', 'YREV', 'HCUS', 'WOW' ]
 
// Multiple arguments
const join = (separator, array) => array.join(separator)
 
const pipe2 = pipe(join, toUppercase)
console.log(pipe2('-', ['doge', 'wow']))
// -> 'DOGE-WOW'
 
// Async functions in the pipe
const asyncPipe = pipe(
  fetchFrom('http://some.com/resource/:id'),
  toJson(),
  map(conutItems)
)
 
asyncPipe('doge').then(console.log)
 
console.log(pipe5('wow such very much doge!'));
 

Testing

npm test