Lotide

A mini clone of the Lodash library for educational purposes.

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:

• head(array): Returns a the element at index 0 of the argument array.
• tail(array): Returns a new array without the one at index 0 in the argument array.
• middle(array): Returns a new array with the element or elements at the hallway index or indexes in an array of an odd or of an even number of elements, respectively.
• without(source, itemsToRemove): Returns a new array from an argument array with elements removed per the other argument array provided.
• eqArrays(array1, array2): Returns true for two identical arrays, false otherwise.
• flatten(array): Returns a new array with elements of children arrays (one level deep) expanded into the outer array in addition to all other elements of non-objects in the outer array.
• countOnly(allItems, itemsToCount): Returns an object with keys representing the elements needed to account for and values representing their number of occurrences in an array.
• countLetters(string)): Returns an object with keys representing the characters and values representing their number of occurrences in a string.
• letterPositions(string): Returns an object with keys representing the characters and values, as arrays of numbers representing their indices in a string.
• findKeyByValue(object, value): Returns key in an object, if the key contains the value specified in the corresponding argument, undefined otherwise.
• eqObjects(object1, object2): Returns true for two identical objects, false otherwise.
• isPalindrome(string): Returns true if a string contains the same characters from left to right and right to left, false otherwise.