tiny-monad

tiny-monad is a Monad factory to help get you started working with Monads. Monad() takes an optional modifier Function to run when instantiating instances, which receives monad & value as it's parameters. What's a Monad? Well, it's this pattern that makes composing Functions / behaviors really easy, and it works well with Functional Reactive Programming for creating UIs, etc..

var AlertMonad = Monad().lift('alert', alert),
    hello      = AlertMonad('Hello!'),
    goodbye    = AlertMonad('Goodbye!');
 
hello.alert();
 
...
 
goodbye.alert();

API

bind

Method

Binds a Function to the Monad and executes it

param  {Function} fn Function to bind
return {Object}      Result of Monad value & fn

Example

var x = Monad();
 
x('Hello World').bind(alert);

lift

Method

Lifts a non-monadic function into the Monad

param  {String} name Name of Function
param  {String} fn   Function to 'lift'
return {Object}      Monad constructor

Example

var alertify = Monad().lift('alert', alert),
    instance = alertify('Hello World!');
 
instance.alert();

method

Method

Adds a function to the Monad prototype

param  {String} name Name of Function
param  {String} fn   Function
return {Object}      Monad constructor

Example

var alertify = Monad().method('alert', alert),
    instance = alertify('Hello World!');
 
instance.alert();

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jason Mulligan
Licensed under the BSD-3 license.