Numeral-js VS ramda

You can use a third-party library, which is a bunch of code that someone else wrote for you. Many awesome third-party libraries can format numbers with commas in JavaScript. For example, you can try Numeral.js, Accounting.js, or Format.js.

JavaScript provides built-in methods like toFixed() for number formatting, as well as libraries like numeral.js, which provides advanced formatting options. These methods and libraries can be used to format numbers in a variety of ways, including currency, percentages, and time. It's important to note that the way numbers are formatted can vary depending on the locale and currency, so it's important to be mindful of these considerations when formatting numbers in JavaScript.

The `a` at the end handles automatically shortening it. See the last example in [the docs for numeraljs](http://numeraljs.com/) under the "Format > Currency" section.

Long answer: The format part of tprintf roughly follows sprintf-js and the numbers are formatted using ns.nFormat which uses the syntax from numeraljs.com.

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However, there are always great libraries that the community develops to support missing features, such as dinero.js, currency.js, and numeral.js.

It's worth mentioning that to communicate your data better to your user, it's always a good idea to mix and match different types of data visualizations. Moreover, you can also have a date formatting library (such as Moment.js) or number formatting library (such as numeral.js) that could accompany your graphs and highlight any special or outstanding number in your dataset.

JavaScript is great for point-free programming! Make sure you check out Ramda.js https://ramdajs.com/

It’s fun in the sense that solving a puzzle is fun, but I avoid it for anything I need to maintain long-term.

But it’s good practice for understanding combinators which is useful for some kinds of problems.

This is very cool. I remember I got sucked into things like Ramda going down this functional programming rabbit hole :-)

https://ramdajs.com/

To create our pipeline, I'm going to use the pipe function from the NodeJS ramda library instead of building my own.

Other libraries to check out are pratica and ramda

I recently took ownership of the new types/ramda repo. This repo is re-exported by @types/ramda and is the first step to bringing type definitions for ramda in-house. We're already hard at work correcting major issues, adding full currying support, and general bug fixes

I'm going to be honest. You probably don't need to use currying in JavaScript. In fact, trying to fit it in your code is going to do more harm than good, unless it's just for fun. Currying only becomes useful when you fully embrace functional programming, which, in JavaScript, means using a library like Ramda instead of the standard built-in functions.

Lodash gets so many things wrong I’d rather not see it in most projects. I appreciate a good utility library for JS projects but my go-to choice has to be Ramda[1]. Every function it exports is curried and works great with pipe which enables me to write highly reusable and composable functions in pointfree notation. I have never been as productive with lodash, and I find the functional style easier to read

[1] https://ramdajs.com/

Do note though that ramda is different from rambda. 👍 (Granted they are very similar!)