quick-merge

Quick for humans.

quick-merge makes it easy to compose objects and arrays. At its heart is a deep-merge algorithm, and strategies to do the merging in various useful ways.

const a = {
  sub : {
    foo: 'bar'
  },
  sky : 'blue',
  ar  : [1, 2]
};
 
const x = qm(a, {
  sub : {
    my  : 'favorite color'
  },
  ar  : 9
});
 
console.log(x);
 
{
  sub : {
    foo : 'bar',
    my  : 'favorite color'
  },
  sky : 'blue',
  ar  : [1, 2, 9]
}
 

qm.stitch(arrish)

Turn a deeply-nested Array into a flat Array of strings in a way that allows nullish items in the various Arrays to fizzle everything else in that sub-array. Is good to pre-process command-line args, for example.

For example, options may or may not have outputfilename. If so, the -o option is included, otherwise it is not.

async function fetchIt(options ={}) {
  const params = qm.stitch([sh.which('curl').toString(),
    '-sSL',
    [-o, options.outputfilename],
    url
  ]);
 
  const [command, ...args] = params;
 
  const res = await execa.stdout(command, args);
}

Use a 2nd-level array to get the nullish affect, but to join('') the Array into a single item in the final output.

• bar could invalidate --foo, but if not, that item will be [..., "--foo=BARVALUE", ...] in the final Array -- 1 entry.
• quxx could invalidate --baz, but if not, that item will be [..., "--baz=", QUXXVALUE, "nine", 42, ...] in the final Array -- 4 different entries.
• workdir could invalidate --filename, but if not, that item will be [..., "--filename", "/home/frank/WORKDIRVALUE/subdir", ...] in the final Array -- 2 entries: one for the top-level --filename, and one for the joined together path.

qm.stitch([
  'command',
  [['--foo=', bar]],
  ['--baz=', quxx, 'nine', 42],
  ['--filename' [os.homedir(), '/', workdir, '/subdir']]
]);

Notes:

• Will convert arrish to an Array, splitting on whitespace if it is a string.