Edge Miscellaneous Utilities

Provides commonly-used libraries across Edge products

Overview

cycle

cycle provides a simple wrapper for background jobs.

import { cycle } from '@edge/misc-utils'

const hello: cycle.Job = {
  name: 'hello',
  interval: 2000,
  async do() {
    console.log('Hello')
  }
}
cycle.run([hello]).catch(err => console.error(err))

http

http provides convenience methods for Express-based JSON APIs.

import { RequestHandler } from 'express'
import { http } from '@edge/misc-utils'

const handler: RequestHandler = (req, res, next) => {
  http.notFound(res, next, { reason: 'this is just a README demonstration' })
}

query

query provides type-safe access to query string data.

import { RequestHandler } from 'express'
import { query } from '@edge/misc-utils'

const handler: RequestHandler = (req, res, next) => {
  const page = query.integer(req.query.page, 1) || 1
  res.send(`Page ${page}`)
  next()
}

validate

validate provides a basic validation library, plus a powerful validate() function that sanitises input. This is particularly useful for Express-based JSON APIs.

import { RequestHandler } from 'express'
import { validate } from '@edge/misc-utils'

const handler = (): RequestHandler => {
  type Data = {
    name: string
  }
  const readBody = validate.validate<Data>({
    name: validate.seq(validate.str, validate.minLength(1), validate.maxLength(256))
  })
  return (req, res, next) => {
    try {
      const data = readBody(req.body)
      res.json(data)
      next()
    }
    catch (err) {
      next(err)
    }
  }
}

Miscellaneous

identity() provides a simple identity function, which can be useful for e.g. dereferencing arrays:

import { identity } from '@edge/misc-utils'

const a = [1, 2, 3]
const b = a.map(identity)
a.push(4)
console.log(a, b) // [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] [ 1, 2, 3 ]

unique() provides a simple way to isolate unique values.

import { unique } from '@edge/misc-utils'

const ids = ['abc', 'def', 'def', 'ghi'].filter(unique)
console.log(ids) // [ 'abc', 'def', 'ghi' ]

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License

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