genepi

A tiny fast reading library. It is not usable by itself but you can have a look at genepi-console to use it from your terminal.

Install

$ npm install genepi

Usage

const { genepi } = require('genepi')
const DELAY = 180

const outputter = {
  header: function header() { /* do stuff */ },
  inner: function inner(word, index) { /* do stuff */ },
  footer: function footer() { /* do stuff */ }
}

function genepize(text) {
  return genepi(text, myOutputter, DELAY)
}

genepize('This is a text')
  .then(() => console.log('end of treatment'))

API

GenepiReader class

GenepiReader class extends SimpleEmitter which is a minimalistic way to send event to a listener. It provides on and emit functions. GenepiReader provides functions to change reading parameters

• constructor(text, outputter) take a text and an object (outputter) which handle words
• read(delayMs = 200, position = 0, backward = false) executes function of the outputter (header(), inner(word, index) and footer())
• pause() pause reading and returns current position
• changeDelay(delay) which pause then play with given delay
• get length() get number of words
• get isBackward() return true if reader is reading backward
• get delay() return current delay {
• get position() return current position {
• get status() return current status {
• emitStatusChange(status) emit a 'StatusChange' event with status as a string for payload. This is the function internally used by other functions that changes reading status. Possible statuses are:
  • 'init'
  • 'reading'
  • 'paused'
  • 'end'

GenepiReaderEE class

GenepiReaderEE is the same as GenepiReader but extending node's EventEmitter.

customize function

customize is a function allowing user to chose extended class as function parameter. It returns a class of readers. So, given a MyEventEmitter a reader can be instanciated as follow

const myCustomReader = new customize(MyEventEmitter)

SimpleEmitter

The minimalistic event emitter used by GenepiReader is a class with two methods:

• on(event, callback): to register a listener (callback)
• emit(event, data): to send an event to listener with data as a payload

Only those two methods from EventEmitter are called by GenepiReader. As EventEmitter may not be available outside of NodeJS, SimpleEmitter is here to give a mean to call listeners in an internal use only. It is not exposed by the API.