ECMA5 Multi-Purpose Javascript Toolkit

Documentation is at: jstoolkit.org

Features

• Emulates ECMA5 Object features in legacy browsers. http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-objects-and-properties/
• Over 86 native object prototypes extensions.
• Fully portable and tested on multiple platforms.

Design Philosophy

• Written in pure optimised javascript.
• Use JST methods within JST wherever possible.
• Lightweight, fast and small. Suitable for mobile devices.

Avoided

• Overlapping frameworks like JQuery, Prototype etc.
• Full i18n / l10n compatibility. Although 90% of JST methods are locale-independent, JST is english-only.
• Monolithic code-base and be-all-and-end-all integrated library.

Installation and Getting Started

Browser

If you plan to use JSToolkit in the browser it is advised that you link jst.min.js in a script tag in your header. You can find jst.min.js in the dist/ folder of this repository or from the website jstoolkit.org and click the download button.

Node.JS / NPM

Using JSToolkit in Node.JS is incredibly easy. Simply install the package using a simple command:

npm install toolkit -g

And to setup the integrated methods simply put require('toolkit') anywhere within your script.

Node.JS REPL

Because of the way Node.JS's REPL works, you cannot use toolkit as you would normally so we have provided a special integrated repl that works with JSToolkit.

$ node
> require('toolkit').repl();
toolkit> Array.range(1,9,3);
[ 1, 4, 7 ]

Goals & Features

The JS Toolkit has very specific goals - as to not re-invent the wheel. They go as follows:

• Complete Unit-Test coverage.
• Designed entirely for ECMA5 applications - Node.JS/V8 specifically.
• Performance is key and is achieved through elegance and simplicity.
• ECMA5 introduced a number of new Object definition descriptors which must be respected.
• Eases development by extending type prototypes safely. Object.prototype is left untouched.
• Use accelerated native functions and fully embrace the new ECMA5 specification.

Contributing

Please follow the following steps to contributing.

1. Check whether an issue containing your fix/feature is already open, if not create one.
2. Fork the JSToolkit repository and create a branch for fix. Like feature/Array#foobar or bugfix/Array#diff
3. Make all commits relating to your issue to that branch and once ready put it into a pull request referencing the issue.
4. Be sure to include full unit-tests for your change and ensure they pass! We use QUnit as our testing framework.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Oliver Morgan oliver.morgan@kohark.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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