Call

A small package containing helper functions to call single or multiple functions.

Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • call
  • chain
  • Utility
    • argsToArray
    • isCallable

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Installation

call can be installed with NPM or Yarn.

# Installing with NPM
npm i --save @ninetynine/call

# Installing with Yarn
yarn add @ninetynine/call

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Usage

call

call provides a helper that makes it easy to call single or multiple functions.

const call = require('@ninetynine/call')

function one (text) {
  console.log('1. %s', text)
}

function two (text) {
  console.log('2. %s', text)
}

const three = null

call(one, 'Hello, world')
// > 1. 'Hello, world'

call([one, two], 'Hello, world')
// > 1. 'Hello, world'
// > 2. 'Hello, world'

call(three, 'Hello, world')
// > Ignored

call([one, two, three], 'Hello, world')
// > 1. 'Hello, world'
// > 2. 'Hello, world'
// > Ignored

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chain

call also provides a helper that makes it easy to chain functions together while transforming the database from each different function, this is called chain.

The first function in a chain gets passed the arguments given to chain. Then each function after that gets giving the returned variable from the previous function and the arguments given to chain.

const { chain } = require('@ninetynine/call')

function one (text) {
  return `${text}, `
}

function two (text, original) {
  // text: 'Hello, '
  // original: 'Hello'

  return `${text}World`
}

chain(one, 'Hello')
// > 'Hello, '

chain([one, two], 'Hello')
// > 'Hello, World'

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Utility

call uses some internal functions in call and chain. They can be accessed externally as well.

argsToArray

argsToArray simply wraps a non-array variable in an array. This helps to standardize variables to allow for the spread operator.

const { argsToArray } = require('@ninetynine/call')

const var = 'Hello, World'

argsToArray(var)
// > ['Hello, World']

isCallable

isCallable checks that a variable is either an array or function. This is used to filter out invalid functions in call and chain.

const { isCallable } = require('@ninetynine/call')
const noop = require('@ninetynine/noop')

const fn1 = noop
const fn2 = undefined

isCallable(fn1)
// > true

isCallable(fn2)
// > false

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Also check out

• noop