Obju

Installation

$ npm install obju

Simple yet powerful extension to JavaScript's Object.prototype.

Methods

Object.spawn(obj)

An Object.create wrapper for easily spawning and extending instances of a parent Object.

require('obju');

var Animal = {

  speak: function(word) {
    console.info('animal says:', word);
  },

};

var Dog = Animal.spawn({
  speak: function(word) {
    // easily call parent methods
    word && animal.speak(word);

    console.info('dog says:', 'ruff!');
  }
});

var fido = Dog.spawn();

fido.speak() // dog says: ruff!

Object.extend(properties)

Extend an Object with a set of properties in place.

require('obju');

function myMethod(options) {
  var defaults = {
    foo: 'foo'
  };

  console.info(defaults.extend(options));
}

myMethod({foo: 'baz', bat: 'baz'}); // {foo: 'baz', bat: 'baz'}