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Find the current status of my dependencies. Over the time, I developed a bunch of modules and published them on the npm package registry and github. Because I do not want to regulary update a module, when over time I find some module should be deprecated, I will update the status right here. With with links for alternatives and more opinions.

txml

fastest XML DOM Parser for node/browser/worker/cloud function/edge/pwa/mini programs.

After changing its already good working stream implementation to work with the for await loop, people start using it. In summer 2020 I found about 2000 weekly downloads, since then I published some updates for better stability and consistency.

  • status: good

tcjson

like the native js JSON object, it provides the two methods stringify and parse. This lib is just like CircularJSON, but I guarantee the shortest possible JSON, that allow the same reproduction of your objects;

This module was published a long time ago. Even dough tcjson still works perfectly fine, I recommend, that you have your data serialize-able with the standard json. For better maintainable code sake.

  • status: deprecated

tstabilizer

stabilize fuzzy values, from sensors or logs

  • status: simple and good

tdispatcher

simple Flux dispatcher, for huge applications

After learning flux and at that time building apps with backbone.js, I wanted a flux implementation that was able to handle dependencies between the action handlers and has an API more similar to backbone’s .on method. Today, I think that redux is a much more clean way for implementing the unidirectional dataflow.

  • status: deprecated

tmitter

minimal event-system in js in 450byte

First it was implemented, in a way to make every object an event emitter. To emit events of any kind. In 2020 I changed to a version, that creates a new emitter object, with a single responsibility each. This works very good with typescript.

  • status good.

tosm

Find and download osmData the structured way

It might still work, but since its initial development, I never try it again. It should be updated to the newest version of txml and use node-fetch instead of the request library. For sure it should use promises not callbacks.

  • status: risky

tmysqlcontroller

handle mysql the direct way
It was the first time to publish the mysql orm. It quickly got replaced by tmysqldao (next)

  • status: deprecated

tmysqldao

handle mysql the direct way
Basically published the tmysqlcontroller on a new name.

  • status: deprecated

twatch

watch runner, you have during development many commands that watch your files or host your files in a webserver. this project will let you have many watch and server on a single console.

It worked, but never perfectly clean. I recommend using concurrently.

  • status: deprecated

tlib

the unition of my awesome libraries tmitter, tstabilizer, txml, tcjson and twatch

Intended to install all my good stuff at once. But once it was initialized, I never updated it again. Just use the modules that you like.

  • status: deprecated

tfunctionaljson

a JSON object, that will stringify and parse functions. so the functions source is going to be a string, and when parse the functions is parsed to be a function again to restore its functionality. this will make it possible provice macros and methods for

This method will stringify the methods it finds on the objects into the json string. It works,… But the idea is just so bad. This leads to code that is very hard to maintain.

  • status: deprecated

tjax

small ajax lib ob promise, that allow upload and progress

This was supposed to be a very small ajax library, to avoid the much to big axios. Today I mostly end up using the browsers fetch API.

  • status: deprecated

treeact

Delclarative UI with free choice of Template-Engine, super fast and support for components and unopinioned server-side renderings.

The idea was cool, and it works, but it is just on the wrong assumption that developers where using template languages. Go with one of the popular libs or make something of your own. However, We should all thank this little lib, it made me develop txml, the fastest xml parser in pure js.

  • status: deprecated

templatemanager

Helping you to manage your templates in Javascript, let you build recursive templates on any enging, templates render faster then without manager, use the same template-files in client and server

Was meant to be used together with treeact, but it never really worked well. It could work, but there is more effort than the result would be worth it.

  • status: deprecated

tmysqlpromisedao

handle mysql the direct way, ready for async await

After versions that worked without promises, this library is a very small and clean ORM for node. I always want to use it in a project, but never did. At some point I found, that better typescript support would be needed to use it very productive. The value it provides is still very good.

The library still works very good, and with its newer siblings tmongodao and tkeyvaluedao, the library can even do join operations across databases and database types.

With typescript 4.1 and its template literal string type and re-map keys in mapped types features, it would be interesting to update this library.

  • status: limited recommendation

tsqlreader

load queries from .sql-files + naming + tamplates

My previous company was using bearcar-dao. It is a disgusting ORM. It was using .sql files, where queries are marked using begin queryName and end. The parser the framework used was very hard to reason about and implemented in a very bad way.
With this tsqlreader library, I was parsing the same file, into the same kind of structure, with much less code. Today I recommend some sql tag for javascript tempalte strings, like shown in the postgres, not sure if such lib exist for mysql, but should be easy to implement if needed.

  • status: deprecated

tcouchdbbuildercli

read, update and manage couchdb design documents

the first tests have worked. But I think it is not how people develop apps today. It is very sad, that people choose mongo over couch all the time. I still would like to build apps using couchDB.

  • status: promising but deprecated

dao2koa

Provide RESTful API for Mysql using tmysqlpromisedao + koa2

Developed in a time when I believed in koa.js to become more popular. But I found koa will not get more adoption. I think it is due to the lag of a good router library, that is similar to express.

  • status: deprecated

tcacher

method query batching, perfect for graphql and database libraries

After such a long time, I still think it is better than facebook’s data-loader. Dataloader has made a good update, but still providing all its clients the same object. This will lead to unwanted side-effects. It is better to use tcacher

  • status: good

tlowdbdao

DAO lib to store in file for rapid Prototyping

The idea is good, but I think it still don’t work. It propably did not work out, because of synchronous API and the fact that data inside and outside the DB are the same instances, that causes unwanted side effects, and unexpected updates on the DB. Maybe I build a dao library for trdb.

  • status: deprecated

ttime

static methods for Dates

I just wanted to have this package name.

  • status: deprecated

trsa

node-forge rsa with an API that you understand

Works very good and in node, the encryption even works faster than the golang version. However rsa is slow overall, and we should build a combination with ASE, to have secure keys and, fast and secure encryption.

  • status: good

teditor

npm install -g teditor & have a web IDE

  • status: experimental

tpicker

fast deep pick library

  • status: good

tmongodao

dao for mongodb

works still good. Same as tmysqlpromisedao, better typescript support is desired.

  • status: good

tredisdao

use redis as your main database

works still good. Same as tmysqlpromisedao, better typescript support is desired.

  • status: good

tder

small ASN1-DER and PEM parser in about 100 lines

  • status: good

tasyncexpress

monkeypatch express/router/layer so you can write async handler

It works, but maybe you want to use fastify

  • status: good

tfilemonk

to rapidly build prototypes that are ready for mongodb

It works, but it rely on internal API of mongo-mock, It made it minor update and broke this module. Today I recommend developing app prototypes using trdb.

  • status: ok

dao2express

dao for mongodb

  • status: don’t know

trompt

CLI questionary

Prompt library for nodejs console apps. With an API similar to inquirer, but this trompt can ask followups as you need it.

  • status: good

tnfetch

wrapper for node-fetch that is handling cookies

  • status: good

hexo-tag-nomnoml

nomnoml-tag for hexo cms

  • status: good

t-secure-express

express middleware & client for RSA encrypted communication

Works good for me. But as rsa is so very slow, I might want to make an implementation that combines rsa for a header and the data encryption with ASE.

  • status: good with potential for improvement.

t-gesture-recognizer

Gesture Recognizer for mobile and desktop HTML apps. The T-Gesture-Recognizer makes it easy for developers to handle touch gestures, starting from a single tap over doubletap to swipe, pinch and throw gestures.

Even after a long time, this still works very good and is even update to typescript.

  • status: good

tstaticstoringproxy

record a statics to directory for later reuse.

  • status: good

txml2js

fastest XML DOM Parser for node/browser/worker compatible to other popular xml parser modules

  • status: need to be implemented

toop

Tobias’s Object Oriented Programming Libraries

The point of this module is to make a point, not to be used.

  • status: deprecated

trdb

develop the server side before your database is setup.

  • status: good