scoreunder

Makes _ more functional.

Underscore and lodash are great libraries, but they have tiny defect: they put the data first and callback second. This arguments order makes it very difficult to compose functions. Scoreunder provides tiny utility function to fix this.

// underscore / lodash
function isPositive(a) { return a > 0; }
_.every([1, 2, 3], isPositive); // true

We cannot bind isPositive to _.every function even from the right, because _.every has signature _.every(collection, [callback=identity], [thisArg])

Using scoreunder we can:

var under = require('scoreunder');
function isPositive(a) { return a > 0; }
var everyPositive = under.partialFn(_.every, isPositive);
everyPositive([1, 2, 3]); // true

Install

NPM: npm install scoreunder --save

API

scoreunder.ba

Creates new function with swapped first and second argument

_.every([1, 2, 3], isPositive); // true
var _every = under.ba(_.every);
_every(isPositive, [1, 2, 3]); // true

scoreunder.partialFn

Reorders arguments using .ba then partial applies given function.

var everyPositive = under.partialFn(_.every, isPositive);
everyPositive([1, 2, 3]); // true

Why?

Because Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong! by Brian Lonsdorf. Switching to another library like wu or ramda is too extreme.

Plus I find that putting callback first leads to code that is more elegant.

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov © 2014

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

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MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Gleb Bahmutov

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