Nimble - a tiny functional js and async flow control library

http://caolan.github.com/nimble/

by caolanm • 15 years ago

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caolanm2• 15 years ago

Ok, it took me like 3 attempts to post this link, sorry if I spammed anyone :(

mkrecny2• 15 years ago

how does this fit in the scheme of things with regard to your async lib??

caolanm2• 15 years ago

The async lib will still be developed, and will aim to be as comprehensive as possible.

This library was created because I often include both async and underscore in client-side projects, which seems a bit overkill when every kb matters.

I've also looked into combining the features of async with underscore in the past. However, I don't believe its possible without backward incompatible changes, or a separate API (one for sync one for async). Nimble is an experiment in how a combined API might work, and uses some interesting tricks regarding function arity to support something closer to the standard map/filter/reduce, while still being convenient to use with callbacks.

For example, you can do the following:

_.map(arr, function (val, callback) { ... }, main_callback);

but you can also do this:

_.map(arr, function (val, key, arr, callback) { ... }, main_callback);

And it will still work as expected.

Nimble - a tiny functional js and async flow control library

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