API for working with Iterable and AsyncIterable objects and some useful container types
npm install any-iter-utilsHelpers for working with any iterable objects and some useful container types
Highly inspired by python itertools,
rust std::iter and tc39 iterator-helpers
Before start using the library use can additionally include prelude file which currenly contains only global types:
``ts`
import 'any-iter-utils/prelude';
These types are used by the library and can be helpful if you decide to write your own helpers or something
See prelude.d.ts
If you want to use imports as it's shown below you should have typescript version >= 4.7 and moduleResolution settingtsconfig.json
in :
`json`
{
"compilerOptions": {
"moduleResolution": "node16" // node16 | nodenext
}
}
Otherwise you will have to import everything just from any-iter-utils not being able to specify the path.
It will look like this:
`ts`
import { map, SyncIter } from 'any-iter-utils';
Instead of this:
`ts`
import { map } from 'any-iter-utils/combinators';
import { SyncIter } from 'any-iter-utils/containers';
It's because the library uses exports field in package.json
which is not supported with other settings of typescript
The basic usage of any helper would look like this:
`ts
import { map } from 'any-iter-utils/combinators';
const
iterable = [1, 2, 3],
mapper = (v: number) => v * 2;
map(iterable, mapper); // IterableIterator<2, 4, 6>
const asyncIterable = (async function* () {
yield 1; yield 2; yield 3;
})();
map(asyncIterable, mapper); // AsyncIterableIterator<2, 4, 6>
`
See combinators for all available helpers
If you want to collect your iterable into some data structure you can use collectors:
`ts
import { intoArr, intoSet } from 'any-iter-utils/collectors';
function* gen(): Generator
yield 1; yield 2; yield 1;
}
intoArr(gen()); // [1, 2, 1]
async function* agen(): AsyncGenerator
yield 1; yield 2; yield 1
}
intoSet(agen()); // Promise
`
Or a universal function collect.
The example above is equivalent to:
`ts
import { collect } from 'any-iter-utils/collectors';
collect(gen(), []); // [1, 2, 1]
collect(agen(), new Set()); // Promise
`
Using only combinators sometimes can be more accurate but often it leads to something like this:
`ts`
map(filter(map(filter(iterable, f1), f2), f3), f4);
To get rid of this problem you can use SyncIter and AsyncIter containers.
The example above is equivalent to:
`ts
import { SyncIter } from 'any-iter-utils/containers';
SyncIter.from(iterable)
.filter(f1)
.map(f2)
.filter(f3)
.map(f4)
`
See containers for all available container types
Install dependencies with npm ci, then run npm run build
The build command will generate esm bundle lib/esm, cjs bundle lib/cjs and declaration files in types` folder