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proposal-built-in-modules | Thor | |
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0.0 | 6.9 | |
11 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
HTML | Ruby | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | MIT License |
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proposal-built-in-modules
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Turboprop: JS Arrays as Property Accessors!?!
There is proposal for stdlib, but it will take some time until (if ever) it will reach stage 4.
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Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
The working group most in charge of JS is ECMA's TC-39 (TC => Technical Committee) [0]. They've been taking a very deliberate, slow path to expanding the "standard" library because they take a very serious view of backwards compatibility on the web. Some proposals were shifted because of conflicts with ancient versions of things like MooTools still out in the wild, for instance. (This was the so-called "Smooshgate" incident [1].)
This may speed up a bit if the Built-In Modules proposal [2] passes, which would add a deliberate `import` URL for standard modules which would give a cleaner expansion point for new standard libraries over adding more global variables or further expanding the base prototypes (Object.prototype, Array.prototype, etc) in ways that increasingly likely have backwards compatibility issues.
TC-39 works all of their proposals in the open on Github [3] and it can be a fascinating process to watch if you are interested in the language's future direction.
[0] https://tc39.es/
[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate
[2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-built-in-modules
[3] https://github.com/tc39/proposals
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What NPM Should Do Today to Stop a New Colors Attack Tomorrow
There is a TC39 proposal for a "Javascript Standard Library." It's at stage 1, which is better than stage 0.
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-built-in-modules
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[AskJS] What is the thing you hate the most about JS?
The standard library is a tough one. There is a proposal for built-in modules but it is very early days and miles away from what is needed. Clojure ships with functions that make the likes of Lodash and Ramda redundant. I think for a dynamic language an extensive library of functions for manipulating collections is essential. It is a real thing that once dynamic language codebases grow too big, they become a challenge to maintain. Therefore having functions that do a lot of common tasks for you mitigates that issue. Paired with immutability, lots of code just becomes data passing through pipelines, giving less surface area for bugs and making everything more concise and declarative.
Thor
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CLI tools at Aha!
Ruby has always been a great general-purpose scripting language and is often used to create command-line utilities. Many of these use the excellent Thor gem to parse command-line options, but there's no escaping one fact: command-line utilities just aren't interesting. Never have been, never will be.
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How to Build Your Own Rails Generator
All public methods in the generator will be called one after the other. Private methods will not be called but are available in your public methods like regular Ruby classes.
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Any opinionated tool / framework for creating binary CLI tools?
ruby: http://whatisthor.com
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Seeking recommendations or suggestions for learning Ruby to maintain the home directory?
I will add that if you want to develop a CLI tool that gives you various commands that you can run, I would have a look at something like thor to keep it organised and documented. But this is completely unnecessary as a first step - you can simply create a Ruby file that does a thing you want and invoke it directly.
- A more ruby-ish command line parsing - design idea
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Bootstrapping with Ruby on Rails Generators and Templates
Not to be confused with generator functions (which you might be familiar with from Python or Javascript), Rails generators are custom Thor commands that focus on, well, generating things.
- Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
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Building a Dot Matrix Animator
I wanted to provide a command-line interface for the user that was easy to use, and I also wanted to provide the flexibility with the options used to render the animation. After looking around online I found that Thor was a good tool to utilize. It allowed me to easily create a number of options that make this program much more versatile. An example below shows how a user can select which folder the source images are in, as well as what the background and foreground colors should be:
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Move over Rake, Thor is the new King
I've used Thor a lot, but it's kind of terrible. It uses a custom non-POSIX-compliant option parser (ex: method_option :list, type: :array -> --list one two three, where as the POSIX way is --list one,two,three or --item one -- item two --item three) and will not error on unknown options or exit with -1 when not enough args are given. If you want a better CLI library, checkout dry-rb, command_kit, or cmdparse.
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Ruby for replacing Unix shell scripts? (eg. a better Perl)
And Thor might be worth looking at if you have complex scripts: https://github.com/erikhuda/thor
What are some alternatives?
openapi-typescript-codegen - NodeJS library that generates Typescript or Javascript clients based on the OpenAPI specification
TTY - Toolkit for developing sleek command line apps.
proposal-pattern-matching - Pattern matching syntax for ECMAScript
Rake - A make-like build utility for Ruby.
Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀
GLI - Make awesome command-line applications the easy way
proposal-observable - Observables for ECMAScript
Commander - The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables
redwood - The App Framework for Startups
dry-cli - General purpose Command Line Interface (CLI) framework for Ruby
proposal-record-tuple - ECMAScript proposal for the Record and Tuple value types. | Stage 2: it will change!
Trollop - Optimist is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way.