found drama

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little JavaScript library called a2z for creating ranges of characters and published it to npm.

I was inspired by a rather painful bit of code I had come across where each letter in the alphabet had been specified one at a time. While I could see that sometimes it might make sense to do that… this was not one of those cases. So over the weekend that followed, I hacked together a2z, wrote some tests for it, and published it to npm.

The library itself is tiny, has no external dependencies ¹, and exports only one function. I’d like to add a little DSL for it, and a little wrapper to make it a drop-in for browser-based projects… but other than that it’s nice and tidy. I kept putting off making this announcement until those two things were done but… better to just put it out there.

Details:

• a2z on npm
• Fork a2z on Github

Update (9/3/2013)

Took about another month, but I got all those little thingies done. The wrapper for using it in the browser? Done. Bower module? Done and deployed? Also: gh-pages for it: founddrama.github.io/a2z

Go ahead and try it out!

1. Minus the dev dependencies for Grunt and nodeunit, but who’s counting that?[↩]

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