tetsuharuohzeki / IxJS

The Interactive Extensions for JavaScript

The Interactive Extensions for JavaScript (IxJS)...

...is a set of libraries to compose synchronous and asynchronous collections and Array#extras style composition in JavaScript

The Interactive Extensions for JavaScript (IxJS) is a library for creating and composing asynchronous sequences using both the Iterable and AsyncIterable classes.

Iterable

The Iterable class a way to create and compose synchronous collections much like Arrays, Maps and Sets in JavaScript using the Array#extras style using the familiar methods you are used to like map, filter, reduce and more.

const Iterator = require('ix').Iterator;

Iterator.from([1,2,3,4])
  .filter(x => x % 2 === 0)
  .map(x => x * 2)
  .forEach(x => console.log(`Next ${x}`));

// => 4
// => 8

The Iterable class implements the iterator pattern in JavaScript by exposing the [Symbol.iterator] method which in turn exposes the Iterator class. The iterator yields values by calling the next() method which returns the IteratorResult class.

interface Iterable<T> {
  [Symbol.iterator](): Iterator<T>;
}

interface Iterator<T> {
  [Symbol.iterator](): Iterator<T>;
  next(): IteratorResult<T>;
}

interface IteratorResult<T> {
  value: T;
  done: Boolean;
}

AsyncIterable

The AsyncIterator class is based off the ECMAScript Proposal for Asynchronous Iterators. This would allow us to create asynchronous collections of Promises and be able to use such methods as the map, filter, reduce and other Array#extras methods that you are used to using.

const AsyncIterableImpl = require('ix').AsyncIterable;

async function *gen() {
  yield Promise.resolve(1);
  yield Promise.resolve(2);
  yield Promise.resolve(3);
  yield Promise.resolve(4);
}

AsyncIterable.from(gen())
  .filter(x => x % 2 === 0)
  .map(x => x * 2)
  .forEachAsync(x => console.log(`Next ${x}`))
  .catch(err => console.log(`Error ${err}`));

// => 4
// => 8

The AsyncIterable class implements the async iterator pattern in JavaScript by exposing the [Symbol.asyncIterator] method which in turn exposes the AsyncIterator class. The iterator yields values by calling the next() method which returns a Promise which resolves a IteratorResult class.

interface AsyncIterable<T> {
  [Symbol.asyncIterator](): AsyncIterator<T>;
}

interface Iterator<T> {
  [Symbol.asyncIterator](): Iterator<T>;
  next(value): Promise<IteratorResult<T>>;
  [optional] throw(value): Promise<IteratorResult<T>>;
  [optional] return(value): Promise<IteratorResult<T>>;
}

interface IteratorResult<T> {
  value: T;
  done: Boolean;
}

License

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