🔴 Ternup

Functional ternaries

Ternaries can get pretty messy, especially when trying to combine them with template literals in CSS-in-JS. Ternup allows you to skip the false case in favor of automatically returning an empty string.

This is extreme bike-shedding and may create more noise than it removes. Ternup's main objective is to remove the floating ? and : that may get lost in the template literal noise.

API

tu(condition, fallback)(expr1, expr2) -> expr1 || expr2 || fallback

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First function

condition ( required )

An expression that evaluates to true or false.

fallback ( optional )

Optional expression for expr1 / expr2 to fallback to.

Defaults to an empty string ("").

Second function

expr1 ( optional )

An expression that returns when condition is truthy.

expr2 ( optional )

An expression that returns when condition is falsy.

Examples

Styled Components

const styled = require("styled-components");
const tu = require("ternup");
 
// Simple example with no false argument.
const oneLine = styled.div`
  font-size: 30px;
  ${({size}) => size > 2 ? `width: ${24}px;` : ""}
`
const oneLineWithTernup = styled.div`
  font-size: 30px;
  ${({size}) => tu(size > 2)(`width: ${24}px;`)}
`

Complex Styled Components example

const styled = require("styled-components");
const tu = require("ternup");
 
const multiLine = styled.div`
  ${({ isActive, color, size }) =>
    isActive
      ? `
          color: ${color ? `${color}` : "blue"};
          ${size ? `font-size: ${size}px` : ""};
        `
      : `
          display: none;
        `};
`;
 
const multiLineWithTernup = styled.div`
  ${({ isActive, color, size }) =>
    tu(isActive)(
      `
        width: ${tu(isActive)(`${color}`, "blue")};
        ${tu(size)(`font-size: ${size}px`)};
      `,
      `
        display: none;
      `
    )};
`;

Reusable function

const tu = require("ternup");
 
const sayHello = (name) => {
  const isGil = tu(name === "Gil Faison");
  return `
    ${isGil("Oh, hello", "Hi")} ${name},
    ${isGil("Charmed I'm sure.", "Welcome to FooBarBaz!")}
  `
}
 
sayHello("Gil Faison") //->  "\n   Oh, hello Gil Faison\n,    Charmed I'm sure\n"
sayHello("Dave Garwacke") //->  "\n   Hi Dave Garwacke\n,    Welcome to FooBarBaz!\n"