minion

1.5.5 • Public • Published

MinionJS - Classical Inheritance for JavaScript

A micro-framework that provides classical inheritance for JavaScript. Easily namespace, create and extend classes.

It is only 3.6 kb minified and gzipped!

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Defining a Class:

minion.define("example", {
  
    Example : minion.extend("minion.Class", {

        exampleVar1: 1,
        exampleVar2: 2,

        init: function(){
      
        },

        doSomething : function(something){
            //do something with something
        }
    })
    
});

Using a Class:

minion.require("example.Example", function(Example) {

    var instance = new Example();
    instance.doSomething();
  
});

Features:

  • Classical inheritance in JavaScript
  • Robust publish/subscribe implementation
  • Dependency management
  • Build tool for easy deployment
  • super() method support
  • Micro-sized. 3.6 kb minfied + gzipped.
  • Fully ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode compliant.
  • Unit tests included.

Currently Supported:

  • Node.js
  • IE 6+
  • Safari 3+
  • Opera 9+
  • Chrome 9+
  • iOS
  • Android

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License

(c) 2011 Taka Kojima (the "Author").
All Rights Reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Distributions of all or part of the Software intended to be used
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
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Except where noted, this license applies to any and all software
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