fof

Functional JavaScript transforms, and a handy fat arrow syntax translator for ES5! Some examples:

var fof = require('fof');
 
// simple property accessor
fof('x')({x: 100}) === 100
fof('foo bar')({'foo bar': 'baz'}) === 'baz'
 
// deep property accessor, courtesy of dotmap
fof('x.y')){x: {y: 'z'}}) === 'z'
// you can use spaces here; '.' is the separator
fof('foo bar.baz')({'foo bar': {baz: 'qux'}}) === 'qux'
 
// numeric index accessor
fof(1)([true, false]) === false
 
// fat arrow syntax
fof('d => d.x')({x: 42}) === 42
// if, for some reason, your data has funky keys...
fof("d => d['gobbledy\\'gook']")({"gobbledy'gook": 1}) === 1
// note the double curly braces for return an object!
['a', 'b', 'c'].map(fof('(d, i) => {{data: d, index: i}}'))
// produces: [
//   {data: 'a', index: 0}, 
//   {data: 'b', index: 1}, 
//   {data: 'c', index: 2}
// ]
 
// object maps
fof({x: 0, y: 1})([-122, 35]) // produces {x: -122, y: 35}
// values in object maps can be any value recognized by fof()
fof({x: {y: 'd => d.z'}})({z: 100}) // produces: {x: {y: 100}}
 
// array maps
fof(['y', 'd => d.x'])({x: -100, y: 50}) // produces: [50, -100]

API

The Node module fof exports a single function that returns a different type of accessor function for different types of inputs, given fof(x):

• If x is a string and roughly matches the syntax of an ES6 fat arrow function, then you'll get the roughly equivalent ES5 function (minus the lexical scope, and a couple of other caveats). For example:
  • fof('d => d.x') returns an accessor for the x property of an object.
  • fof('d => [+d.x, +d.y]') returns a function that turns an object with x and y keys into a two-element array of coerced numbers.
  • Note: our "version" of fat arrow functions have an explicit return wrapped around the function body, so you can use comma-separated expressions like d => d.x *= 100, d to modify the object in place and return it. This is not possible in native implementations.
• If x is a string (and not a fat arrow expression), you get a deep object accessor from dotmap.
• If x is a number, you get a numeric index accessor.
• If x is an object (and not an Array), you get a mapping function that returns a new Object the same set of keys and a corresponding value determined by fof(x[key]). This allows you to do things like:
  • fof({x: 0, y: 1}) returns a function that converts a 2-element Array into an Object with x and y keys corresponding to the first and second elements.
• If x is an Array, you get a mapping function that returns a new Array with values corresponding to each index, for which fof(x[i]) is the value. This allows you to do the inverse of object mapping:
  • fof(['x', 'y']) returns a function that converts the x and y keys of an object into a 2-element array.

fof.stream(x, options)

The module's stream() method returns an object transform stream that can optionally filter objects by an expression and leave the input objects untouched, or filter and transform with independent expressions:

// transform using an expression
objectStream
  .pipe(fof.stream('d => [d.x, d.y]'))
 
// filter using an expression, leaving the data as-is
objectStream
  .pipe(fof.stream('d => d.x > 100', {
    filter: true
  }))
 
// filter and transform with expressions
objectStream
  .pipe(fof.stream('d => [d.x, d.y]', {
    filter: 'd => d.x > 100'
  }))

Check out the tests for more examples.