Orderly

A tiny Javascript library for your browser or server to perform ordered asynchronous array mapping.

node.js

#!/usr/bin/env node
var fs = require('fs'),
    Orderly = require('../orderly'),
    orderly = new Orderly();

orderly.array(['/etc', '/home'])
    .map(function (path, success, error) {
        fs.readdir(path, function (err, files) {
            if (err) {
                error(err);
                return;
            }
            success(files.slice(0, 5));
        });
    })
    .complete(function (files) {
        console.log(files);
    })
    .error(function (err) {
        console.log(err);
    })
    .run();

Create a new orderly array instance with orderly.array(). With this instance you can then call .map() any number of times to add an additional mapping callback. Using the success or error parameters of your callback you can asynchronously pass the new value back.

There are two additional methods you can use to add callbacks, that is .complete() and .error(). .complete() is called upon when all mapping callbacks have be used.

Calling .run() finally will start the mapping process.

browser

// Let's do some AJAX
orderly.array(['php/a.php', 'php/b.php'])
	// Use jQuery's GET AJAX method
	.map(function (url, success) {
		$.get(url, success);
	})
	.map(function (html, success) {
		success(html);
	})
	// Even though fixtures/a.php has a timeout we
	// still receive the html in the order [a, b]
	.complete(function (arr) {
		console.log('complete', arr);
	})
	.run();

Using Orderly is just as easy in the browser.

Author

Luke Morto

License

MIT