thiliban v1.0.0

Module 1: Week 4 2.857142857142857% Complete 3% Complete Publishing Lotide To npm Lotide Assignment 45 minutes Status Incomplete Wow... We've built a library of functions that we or other developers could actually use in other projects! This is great, but how will these other projects actually import our library?

Much like with Mocha, Chai, Chalk and other packages on npm, we can package up and publish our Lotide library to the public npm registry. In this activity, we'll be doing just that. Exciting!

Creating An NPM Account In order to publish our package to npm, we first need an account on their website. More details on this can be found here.

Instruction Create an NPM account.

Sign up link: https://www.npmjs.com/signup

Your username is important, and we suggest keeping it professional (though it doesn't have to be your name or initials, etc. either).

Instruction Verify your email.

As they say:

You must verify your email address in order to publish packages to the registry.

Logging In To NPM From Vagrant We can now log in using these credentials.

Instruction Log into npm from the command line.

In our Vagrant machine, run the npm login command from any directory. Follow the prompts to login successfully.

Having A README.md File Before we publish our package, there's some best practices housekeeping that we need to follow first.

We need a README.md file. The readme file explains to other developers what this library is for, how to install it, and how to use it.

Instruction Create a README.md file within the root of your project (lotide) folder.

Instruction Paste the following template into README.md.

README Template

Lotide

A mini clone of the Lodash library.

Purpose

BEWARE: This library was published for learning purposes. It is not intended for use in production-grade software.

This project was created and published by me as part of my learnings at Lighthouse Labs.

Usage

Install it:

npm install @username/lotide

Require it:

const _ = require('@username/lotide');

Call it:

const results = _.tail([1, 2, 3]) // => [2, 3]

Documentation

The following functions are currently implemented:

• assertArraysEqual: This function asserts true or false depending on the equality of two arrays
• assertEqual: This function asserts true or false depending on the equality of two values
• assertObjectsEqual: This functions asserts true or false depending on the equality of two objects
• countLetters: This function returns the count of each letter in a string
• countOnly: This function takes items and returns the count for certain parts of the item
• eqArrays: This function compares two arrays
• eqObjects: This function compares two objects
• findKey: This function scans an object and returns the first key
• findKeyByValue: This function searches for a key and matches it between two objects
• flatten: This function flattens multiple arrays into a single array
• head: This function returns the first element from an array
• index: List of all the functions
• letterPositions: This function returns all occurences in the string where a letter is found
• map: This function creates a new array with results
• middle: This function returns the middle element of an array
• tail: This function returns everything but the first element of an array
• takeUntil: This function returns a slice of an array with elements taken from the beginning
• without: This function removes elements from an array