JavaScript - Micro npm Packages
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8_ENTRIESArray
16_ENTRIES- is-sorted
A small module to check if an Array is sorted.
- array-first
Get the first element or first n elements of an array.
- array-last
Return the last element in an array.
- arr-flatten
Recursively flatten an array or arrays.
- dedupe
Remove duplicates from an array.
- array-range
Creates a new array with given range.
- arr-diff
Returns an array with only the unique values from the first array, by excluding all values from additional arrays using strict equality for comparisons.
- filled-array
Returns an array filled with the specified input
- map-array
Map object keys and values into an array.
- in-array
Return true if any of passed values exists in array - faster than using indexOf.
- unordered-array-remove
Efficiently remove an element from an unordered array without doing a splice.
- array-swap
Swap position of two items in an array.
- mirrarray
Creates a keymirror object from an array of valid keys.
- group-array
Group array of objects into lists.
- array.chunk
Split array/TypedArray to chunks of given size.
- fast-cartesian
Fast cartesian product.
String
19_ENTRIES- decamelize
Convert a camelized string into a lowercased one with a custom separator: unicornRainbow β unicorn_rainbow.
- pad-left
Left pad a string with zeros or a specified string.
- to-camel-case
Convert a string to a camel case.
- to-capital-case
Convert a string to a capital case.
- to-constant-case
Convert a string to a constant case.
- to-dot-case
Convert a string to a dot case.
- to-no-case
Remove an existing case from a string.
- to-pascal-case
Convert a string to a pascal case.
- to-sentence-case
Convert a string to a sentence case.
- to-snake-case
Convert a string to a snake case.
- to-space-case
Convert a string to a space case.
- to-title-case
Convert a string to a title case.
- node-slug
slugifies even utf-8 chars.
- rtrim
Strip whitespace - or other characters - from the end of a string.
- slice.js
Javascript library to enhance String.substring / Array.slice with python slice style.
- strip-ansi
Strip ANSI escape codes.
- striptags
An implementation of PHP's strip_tags in Node.js.
- parse-next-json-value
Parse next JSON value from string allowing extraneous characters after value.
- pluralize
A very tiny library to pluralize words
Date & Time
9_ENTRIES- pretty-ms
Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 β 15d 11h 23m 20s.
- hirestime
A wrapper around the built-in high resolution timer which simplifies the calculation of timestamps.
- periods
Defined time-periods constants for Javascript, in milliseconds.
- fecha
Javascript Date formatting and parsing.
- akamai-time-reference
Get reference time using Akamai's time reference service.
- timeago.js
A tiny(~1.7kb) library used to format date with
*** time agostatement. - count-days-in-month
Get the number of days in a given month.
- time-stamp
Get a formatted timestamp.
- twas
Generate a relative time string (Example: "3 seconds ago")
Object
22_ENTRIES- map-obj
Map object keys and values into a new object.
- filter-obj
Filter object keys and values into a new object.
- object-values
Get the values of an object.
- object-pairs
Turn an object into list of [key, value] pairs for mapping, iterating or other purposes.
- zipmap
Returns a map with the keys mapped to the corresponding vals. zipmap also accepts a single value of objects or pairs.
- just-pluck
Pluck without the madness.
- deep-equal
Node's assert.deepEqual() algorithm as a standalone module.
- deep-assign
Recursive Object.assign().
- set-value
Create nested values and any intermediaries dot notation (
'a.b.c') paths. - get-value
Use property paths (a.b.c) to get a nested value from an object.
- has-value
Returns true if a value exists, false if empty. Works with deeply nested values using dot notation (
'a.b.c') paths. - has-key-deep
Deep-search objects for keys. Keys can be searched by providing an array of keys, or using a dot-notiation.
- flatkeys
Flatten object key hierarchies into a list of strings using a custom separator.
- flatten-obj
Converts an object literal with deeply nested nodes to a simple key/value object.
- is-empty-object
Check if an object is empty.
- stringify-object
Stringify an object/array like JSON.stringify just without all the double-quotes.
- sorted-object
Returns a copy of an object with its keys sorted.
- static-props
Defines static object attributes using
Object.defineProperties - missing-deep-keys
Returns an array of keys from first object that are missing in second.
- has-own-property
Check if an object has a local property.
- merge-objects
Deep-merge two objects. Arrays that are values of the same object key get concatenated.
- deep-object-diff
Deep diff two JavaScript Objects while preserving the data structure. Including nested structures of Arrays and Objects.
Function
8_ENTRIES- compose-function
Compose a new function from smaller functions
f(g(x)). - curry
A curry function without anything too clever.
- once
Run a function exactly one time.
- deep-bind
Bind a context to all functions in an object, including deeply nested functions.
- identity-function
Always return the input argument.
- mem
An optimization technique used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input.
- throttle-debounce
Throttle/debounce your functions.
- compose-tiny
A very tiny and fast compose function.
Math
6_ENTRIES- is-even
A good way to tell if a number is even or not (avoids type issues). Uses
is-oddandis-numberunder the hood. - is-number
Returns
trueif the value is a number. - is-odd
A good way to tell if a number is odd or not (avoids type issues). Uses
is-numberunder the hood. - easy-math.js
A tiny easy math library including addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division.
- my-prime
A good way to tell if a number is prime or not.
- fun-gcd
A tiny math library to get gcd of two numbers using Euclidean algorithm
Stream
11_ENTRIES- through2
Tiny wrapper around Node streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
- through2-filter
A through2 to create an Array.prototype.filter analog for streams.
- through2-map
A through2 to create an Array.prototype.map analog for streams.
- stream-spigot
A readable stream generator, useful for testing or converting simple functions into Readable streams.
- concat-stream
writable stream that concatenates strings or data and calls a callback with the result.
- JSONStream
streaming JSON.parse and stringify
- through2-map-promise
A small promise-based wrapper for through2.
- pump
pipe streams together and close all of them if one of them closes.
- split
Break up a stream and reassemble it so that each line is a chunk.
- is-stream
Check if something is a Node.js stream.
- syncthrough
Transform your data as it pass by, synchronously.
Promise
4_ENTRIES- pify
Promisify a callback-style function.
- promise-all-props
Like
Promise.allbut for object properties. - sleep-promise
Resolves a promise after a specified delay.
- is-promise
Test whether an object looks like a promises-a+ promise.
Data Structure
1_ENTRIES- quetie
Just the cutest and tiniest queue/deque implementation!
File System
7_ENTRIES- rimraf
A deep deletion module for node (like rm -rf).
- mkdirp
Recursively mkdir, like mkdir -p.
- du
A simple JavaScript implementation of du -sb.
- file-size
Lightweight filesize to human-readable / proportions w/o dependencies.
- tmp
Temporary file and directory creator for node.js.
- fs-promise
Node fs methods as Promise/A+ (optional fs-extra, graceful-fs).
- read-git-user
Reads the username and email from
.gitconfigand returns it as json object.
Browser
7_ENTRIES- delegate
Lightweight event delegation.
- insert-css
Insert a string of css into the head
- dom-element-value
DOM element value getter/setter.
- image-promise
Load one or more
<img>s in a Promise. - get-media-size
Get the original size of any
img/video/svg/canvastags or canvas context. - document-ready
Document ready listener for modern browsers.
- copee
Copy text from browser to clipboard...natively!
Semver
3_ENTRIES- semver
The semantic version parser used by npm.
- semver-max
Find maximum (or minimum) version according to semver.
- semver-first-satisfied
Find minimum in an array of version that satisfies a semver range.
CLI
6_ENTRIES- abbrev
Calculate the set of unique abbreviations for a given set of strings.
- glob
Glob functionality for node.js.
- username
Get the username of the current user.
- minimist
Parse argument options.
- png-to-ico
Convert png to windows ico format.
- help-version
Easily handle --help and --version arguments in your CLI application
Module management
2_ENTRIES- pkg-conf
Get namespaced config from the closest package.json.
- normalize-pkg
Normalize values in package.json to improve compatibility, programmatic readability and usefulness with third party libs.
Generators
1_ENTRIES- is-generator
Check whether a given value is a generator function.
Other
7_ENTRIES- uuid
Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript.
- node-mime
Comprehensive MIME type mapping API based on mime-db module.
- not-defined
Checks if foo is not defined, i.e. undefined, null, an empty string, array or object.
- is-fqdn
Check if a string represent a fully qualified domain name.
- shurley
Parses URLs from user input (with potential typos in protocols, bad copy+paste, etc.) and returns a proper URL.
- mime-type-check
Get the MIME type of a file by its extension.
- nanoid
A tiny (130 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript
Tools
1_ENTRIES- npm-deprecated-check
Check for deprecated packages and recommend alternative packages.