iotdb-helpers

Lots of useful functions, built as an overlay on underscorelodash.

Now Bluebird / Async / Q free - 2020-01-08

Introduction

These are tons of little useful functions.

const _ = require("iotdb-helpers");

Everything (well, 99%) is namespaced. For example, to access the d "dictionary" functions
you would do:

_.d.get({ "a": { "b": 1 }}, "/a/b"); // returns "1"

Sections

Top Level

_.noop - do nothing
_.make_error - return a function that

cfg

Configuration: find files and load them

coerce

Coerce: change types of things, e.g. "32" -> 32

color

Color: color operations, such as RGB to HSV

convert

Convert: unit of measure conversions, such as Celsius to Fahrenheit.

d

Dictionaries: manipuate dictionaries, such as getting nested values by path, compositing.

error

Error: manipulate Error objects

hash

Hash: hash stuff

id

Id: create slugs, camel case, dash case, etc.

is

Is: test types

ld

Linked Data: work semantic web type LD data, where URIs are used as keys and multiple values may exist at keys

logger

Loggger: log stuff (looks like bunyan but isn't - can be swapped in though)

net

Net: do network operations, such as getting IPv4 / IPv6 addresses

q

Queue: queue operations

random

Random: generate random numbers and strings

timestamp

Timestamp: work with ISO datetimes, such as generating, adding to dictionaries, comparison.