Modularize?

[tomek-he-him]

λ aims to be modular and browser-friendly. How about releasing every function as a separate script? This goes right in hand with “Methods are implemented individually and not as part of a whole.”

Here’s why: when you just want one or two λ functions, you still have to pull the whole source of contra into your bundle:

var concurrent = require("contra").concurrent;

3 kB minified code isn’t much – but it matters when you write a browser-facing app or library. It would be much better if you could just get the 300 bytes you really need:

var concurrent = require("contra/concurrent");

Here’s how: tjmehta/101 is a great example of such an approach.

You can also keep full backwards compatibility with the current syntax – var concurrent = require("contra").concurrent – by supplying an index.js like this one. This index.js could then also be compiled into a drop-in bundle for browsers. Just as it is now.

[bevacqua]

I did this for contra.emitter, which is typically all I need client-side. I don't have the time to do it, but it's definitely a welcome pull request

[tomek-he-him]

:) funny, I've actually filed this issue because I needed to import contra/emitter. Anyway, I'll do my best to submit a PR next week – though I'm also quite tied up at the moment.

[bevacqua]

I went ahead and did this myself for 1.9.0

[tomek-he-him]

Thank you. Sorry for not letting you know – I realized that I just needed the pubsub part, and that I needed more power. So I went ahead and wrote another library: stereo. It’s like λ/emitter, but split down further into many tiny modules.

[bevacqua]

No worries, I kinda needed it anyways :)