denew v1.0.0

denew

Are you bothered by the new keyword?

Is its presence in code irksome?

Does reading it set off an internal monologue about how presumptuous this glorified factory function is, insisting its hallowed summoning be heralded with a claim of needing something heretofore unseen?

I thought so.

This module wraps the call to all native new-ables (like Array, Map, Set, etc in the browser, node, or a web worker) to internally do it for you so you never have to use the keyword again, and can invoke them like any other factory function.

so instead of

var s = new Set()

it can just be

var s = Set()

Except for classes, because you make those, and there's currently not way to globally proxy all class creation. Though if you don't like new you probably don't use classes. Also someone already made a thing for that.

Does this break invocations that already use new?

None that I've found so far:

require('denew')
var x=Set()
var y=new Set() //no error
var z=new Set   //no error
x.add(7)
y.add(6) //no error
z.add(5) //no error

var d=Date()
var e=new Date() //no error
var f=new Date   //no error
d.getTime //[Function: getTime]
e.getTime //[Function: getTime]
f.getTime //[Function: getTime]

//etc

Though...I guess if you're someone who says:

var x=new Date //without the (), which is valid but weird

you cannot now just say:

var x=Date

you still have to execute it:

var x=Date()