JSLite - Version 0.6.2 Beta

Introduction

A very light-weight JavaScript library aiming to make some trivial tasks in JavaScript relating to object oriented programming easier to write and read.

Features

Classes

Yes, this is another JavaScript library that offers functionality for creating classes. However, this one is made not to get in your way. At all. Classes created using these tools are simple, pure JavaScript objects without bells and whistles. No magic init-method, little wrapped constructors, no glitchy super() method.

The way class-hierarchy is maintained, is through the automatically maintained constructor property on every class instance, and parent property on every class.

All created classes will automatically be children of the Class class, which contains functionality for class-oriented programming, but no magic nonsense.

Here's an example of what creating classes looks like:

//Create the Dog class. It extends an imaginary Animal class.
var Dog = (new JSLite.Class).extend(Animal)

//Create a constructor.
.construct(function(name){
  Dog.dogs.push(this);
  this.name = name;
  Animal.call(this); //Or: `this.construct()`
})

//Add static members.
.statics({
  dogs: []
})

//Add instance members.
.members({
  name: "StrayDog",
  bark: function(){
    console.log("Woof!");
  }
})

//Finalize the class to turn it into a native JavaScript object.
.finalize();

The class can then be instantiated.

//Create my dog.
var myDog = new Dog("Scoobie");

//Woof!
myDog.bark();

//All true.
(myDog instanceof Class);
(myDog instanceof Animal);
(myDog instanceof Dog);
(myDog.constructor == Dog);
(myDog == Dog.dogs[0]);
(myDog.name == "Scoobie");

Change-log

The changes can be found in CHANGES.md in this repository.

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Avaq, https://github.com/Avaq

JSLite is licensed under the MIT license. The license is included as LICENSE.md in this directory.