newtype-ts
ramda
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MIT License | MIT License |
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newtype-ts
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Type-Safe Printf() in TypeScript
Curious what your issue was with duck-typing. Were you effectively looking to create ADTs that are required to go through a specific step-by-step process, not simply 'look like' the thing that was expected?
If so, you might be interested in [newtype-ts].
[newtype-ts]: https://github.com/gcanti/newtype-ts
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Is there a language with custom type support (value objects)?
this one https://github.com/gcanti/newtype-ts ?
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I too prefer no classes
You don't need classes for nominal types: https://github.com/gcanti/newtype-ts
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When do you find Branding to be useful?
Creating newtypes (via newtype-ts) for fractions and percentages is worthwhile if you're very concerned about correctness, though it's unfortunate that absent typeclasses they're not terribly ergonomic.
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Please put units in names
I haven't used this library in particular or this one, but bless the authors and all the others for trying to make it happen… the project I'm now leading uses strongly typed strings for different component addresses, and it saves me to constantly look up the documentation what the functions need – it's beautiful.
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Type that's NOT another type?
A "nominal" solution with no runtime overhead can be provided by branded types, other words for this are "opaque types" or "newtypes". Some libraries like newtype-ts exist to help with the construction of these. That library README describes it as:
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Is there a way to guarantee that a number variable can never be a non-finite value?
You can also look at the fp-ts ecosystem for inspiration. newtype-ts and io-ts's Branded type with io-ts-type's UUID as a good example
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Branding & Flavoring
Alternatively we can use other more sophisticated techniques to achieve nominal typing or libraries such as: newtype-ts or io-ts.
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Introduction
One using fp-ts and newtype-ts
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Using fp-ts and newtype-ts: types
We are going to use newtype-ts to build a branded type:
ramda
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Tacit Programming
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.
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Pipeline-Oriented Programming [video]
This is very cool. I remember I got sucked into things like Ramda going down this functional programming rabbit hole :-)
https://ramdajs.com/
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Level up your Typescript game, functionally - Part 2
To create our pipeline, I'm going to use the pipe function from the NodeJS ramda library instead of building my own.
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Level up your Typescript game, functionally - Part 3
Other libraries to check out are pratica and ramda
- Ramda: A practical functional library for JavaScript programmers
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FP and JavaScript/TypeScript
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
- [AskJS] Auto-Generated Documentation from JSDoc comments, nice modern themes?
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When to use currying in JavaScript
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.
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No Lodash
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/
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Snap.js - A competitor to Lodash
Do note though that ramda is different from rambda. 👍 (Granted they are very similar!)
What are some alternatives?
io-ts - Runtime type system for IO decoding/encoding
lodash - A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras.
type-fest - A collection of essential TypeScript types
Rambda - Faster and smaller alternative to Ramda
fantasy-land - Specification for interoperability of common algebraic structures in JavaScript
RxJS
io-ts-types - A collection of codecs and combinators for use with io-ts
immutable-js - Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity.
fp-ts - Functional programming in TypeScript
Squants - The Scala API for Quantities, Units of Measure and Dimensional Analysis
lazy.js - Like Underscore, but lazier