prolly-put

 

A put method for Array, Map, Set, WeakMap, and WeakSet.

$3

Once upon a time, there was a simple way to retrieve or create some value once.

``js
const value = obj[key] || (obj[key] = create());
`

During those times, TC39 members didn't believe that was a nice to have pattern, representable via new .set or .add methods for both Maps and Sets.

`js
// how me and few others were hoping to have
const value = map.get(key) || map.set(key, create());

// what ES5 offered instead
const value = map.get(key) ||
map.set(key, create()).get(key);
`

Accordingly, what I've always missed with both arrays, maps, or sets, is a way to retrieve a value once or create and set it once if absent.

`js
const value = array.put(create());
// same for WeakMaps
const value = map.get(key) || map.put(key, create());
// same for WeakSets
const value = set.has(value) || set.put(value);
`

There is also a never ambiguous and natural pattern for those cases where a map value could be falsy.
`js
const value = map.has(key) ?
map.get(key) :
map.put(key, create());
`

Covering all my needs since ES5.

This prollyfill would like to bring in the put` method for Array, Maps, Sets, WeakMaps and WeakSets too.