fusing

Fusing is a small library that creates the base class that is used in all of bigpipe's components. It takes care of:

• Prototypical inheritance.
• An API for adding readable and writable properties to these classes.
• Adding default methods which are commonly used.
• A Backbone.extend based extending of the prototypes.

Installation

The stable versions of this module are released in the npm registry and can be installed using:

npm install --save fusing

The --save tells npm to automatically save this dependency in your package.json.

Getting Started

The module is required just like any other module you use. It exposes a single function that takes care of all the merging.

'use strict';
 
var fuse = require('fusing');

And that is all we need to start with inheritance. When you want to have a class inherit from the EventEmitter you only need to pass in the class references:

function Example() {
 
}
 
fuse(Example, require('events').EventEmitter);

This will tell fuse to use the .prototype of the EventEmitter for your Example class. In addition to that it has added a couple of function to your class which makes it easier to setup the prototypes and extend Example again.

Example.readable

One of the functions that are added to your class is readable this allows you to easily specify which properties or methods on the Example.prototype are read-only and should never be overridden by other code. This is ideal for protecting your private methods.

Example.readable('config', { foo: 'bar' });

The example above added the property config to the prototype with the foo/bar object as value. If you wonder how this magic works, take a look a our predefine project for more details.

Please note that this function is added on the Example function not on the Example.prototype.

Example.writable

This is the writable equivalent of the function above. This allows you to specify properties on the prototype that are writable. The added benefit of this function is that your methods will not be enumerable (which is also true for all properties/methods added using the readable function).

Example.writable('property', 'foo');

Please note that this function is added on the Example function not on the Example.prototype.

Example.get

Add a getter to the prototype.

var foo = 'bar'
Example.get('property', function () {
  return foo;
});

Please note that this function is added on the Example function not on the Example.prototype.

Example.set

Add a getter AND a setter to the prototype.

var foo = 'bar'
Example.set('property', function () {
  return foo;
}, function (value) {
  return foo = value;
});

Please note that this function is added on the Example function not on the Example.prototype.

Example.extend

This allows you to use the same extend functionality that you might be accustomed to with Backbone in your own classes:

var MyExample = Example.extend({
  method: function method() {
    console.log('my custom method');
  },
 
  prop: 132
});

Please note that this function is added on the Example function not on the Example.prototype.

Example.predefine

As it's sometimes useful to also create readable and writable properties when your class is constructed, we decided to expose the predefine module on your class. Which allows you use the same readable pattern again:

function Example() {
  var writable = Example.predefine(this, Example.predefine.WRITABLE)
    , readable = Example.predefine(this);
 
  readable('private', 134);
  readable('evn', process.ENV.NODE_ENV || 'development');
  writable('value', 100);
}
 
fuse(Example, require('eventemitter3'));

Please note that this function is added on the Example function not on the Example.prototype.

License

MIT