augmentjs

A library for augmenting primitive JavaScript data types with non-destructive convenience methods. This library is largely inspired by Douglas Crockford's book "JavaScript: The Good Parts". There are other libraries that tackle this same problem but use a very different philosophy to extending primitive types. Libraries like Underscore.js provide nice convenience methods for Strings, Objects and Arrays, but do not actually modify the underlying primitive type, which results in code that is more Functional and looks like this:

var foo = _.escape("foo & bar");  // "foo & bar"

Which is fine, but I prefer the following more fluent syntax:

var foo = "foo & bar".escape();  // "foo & bar"

Chaining is made much more simple if we modify the primitive type:

var foo = "  foo & ".escape().join("bar  ").trim();  // "foo & bar"

Installation

To install with node:

npm install augmentjs

To install with bower:

bower install augmentjs

To use in the browser just include the library like a normal script:

<script src="path/to/augment.js"></script>

Usage

See comments in src/augment.coffee for available methods.

Please fork this repo and provide your own methods. Help this library grow!