underscore-contrib
The brass buckles on Underscore's utility belt -- a contributors' library for Underscore.
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Why underscore-contrib?
While Underscore provides a bevy of useful tools to support functional programming in JavaScript, it can't
(and shouldn't) be everything to everyone. Underscore-contrib is intended as a home for functions that, for
various reasons, don't belong in Underscore proper. In particular, it aims to be:
- a home for functions that are limited in scope, but solve certain point problems, and
- a proving ground for features that belong in Underscore proper, but need some advocacy and/or evolution
(or devolution) to get them there.
Use
First, you’ll need Underscore. Then you can grab the relevant underscore-contrib libraries and simply add
something
like the following to your pages:
<script type="text/javascript" src="underscore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="underscore.object.builders.js"></script>
At the moment there are no cross-contrib dependencies (i.e. each library can stand by itself), but that may
change in the future.
Contributing
There is still a lot of work to do around perf, documentation, examples, testing and distribution so any help
in those areas is welcomed. Pull requests are accepted, but please search the issues
before proposing a new sub-contrib or addition. Additionally, all patches and proposals should have strong
documentation, motivating cases and tests. It would be nice if we could not only provide useful tools built on
Underscore, but also provide an educational experience for why and how one might use them.
Other (potentially) useful sub-contribs include the following:
- String utilities
- Date/time utilities
- Validators
- Iterators
- Generators
- Promises
- Monads
- Currying
- Laziness
- Multimethods
What do these mean? Well, that’s up for discussion. :-)