W.js

A snippets repository and welterweight library used by The Workers maintained by Ross Cairns. The Workers are a creative coding studio in East London.

Node Usage
npm install w-js
Browser Usage
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theworkers/W.js/master/build/W.min.js

Used in:
After Dark, Where You Are, Reset, Bloomberg Connects, o/o/o/o, Music To Move To, Wylde Archive, Wyldemag, 51 Jay St, David Newton

Features

Core

bind, call, clone, compose, composeAsync, composePromisers, countedCallbackMixin, cycle, each, eventMixin, extend, first, flatten, flip, interpose, isDefined, isNotOk, isOk, isUndefined, isNotUndefined, last, list, limit, loop, makeReporter, Middleware, negate, Obj, once, partial, partialRight, partition, promise, promiseWrap, range, randomFrom, report, rest, Router, Sequence, sequence, take, TickTimer, Timer, toArray, toPartition, withoutLast

Client

clearContext, displayViewMixin, JSONSocketConnection, polyfillRequestAnimationFrame, touchEventViewMixin, viewportSize, wrappedContext, ZIndexStack,

Color

HSLGradient, hslToRgb, hsvToRgb, RandomColorSequence, randomHex, rgbToHsl, rgbToHsv

Math

add, angleBetween, clamp, clipNormalized, colorStringToHex, colorValuesToHex, distance, dynamicEaseInterpolation, fitScaleRatio, floatToString, getDynamicallyEasedInterpolation, hexStringToColorArray, inRange, isClose, lerp, makeMapInterval, map, MatrixStack, normalize, PI, PI_2, randomBetween, shuffleArray, wrap

Interpolations

backEaseIn, backEaseInOut, backEaseOut, bounceEaseIn, bounceEaseInOut, bounceEaseOut, circularEaseIn, circularEaseInOut, circularEaseOut, cubicEaseIn, cubicEaseInOut, cubicEaseOut, elasticEaseIn, elasticEaseInOut, elasticEaseOut, exponentialEaseIn, exponentialEaseInOut, exponentialEaseOut, linearInterpolatio, quadraticEaseIn, quadraticEaseInOut, quadraticEaseOut, quarticEaseIn, quarticEaseInOut, quarticEaseOut, quinticEaseIn, quinticEaseInOut, quinticEaseOut, sineEaseIn, sineEaseInOut, sineEaseOut

Node

corsMiddleware, cssPrefixerMiddleware, Geolocate, jadeMiddleware, jsMiddleware, jsMinMiddleware, JSONSocketConnection, liveReload, WebSocketRepeater

Redis

redisReferrerStorage, redisSetStorage, redisTimeseriesStorage

String

addCommas, capitalizeFirstLetter, contains, cssGradientString, domStr, endsWith, hasTld, isValidEmailAddress, join, makeRedisKey, startsWith, trim

Util

FileListBuilder

Node usage

npm install w-js --save

With express

If W.js is included via NPM it can also be served to the client using the provided middleware:

app.get('/js/W.js', W.jsMiddleware() );
app.get('/js/W.min.js', W.jsMinMiddleware() );

Building

$ grunt build

Documentation

$ grunt docs

Testing

Running Tests

Client-side tests with phantom.js

$ grunt build test-client

Node tests:

$ grunt build test-node

Test setup

• *.test.js are run on both node and client (provided test is added to test.html)
• *.test.client.js are run client only, provided test is added to test.html
• *.test.node.js are run node only

Node and Redis modules

Include with, for example:

var Geolocate = W.Geolocate();