FatFingerJS
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Embrace the chaos of JavaScript
FatFingerJS
FatFinger is a JavaScript library expanding JS to allow typos and misspellings. Why bother with clean, well-formatted code when you can write this and FatFinger will guess at your intentions?
<script type="text/javascript" src="FatFinger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javoscript"> // any misspelling of javascript works here
vart x = "herrrllo werld"
dokkkkumint.rit3(xx)
</script>
Don't bother with semi-colons. Open brackets and never close them. Misspell keywords, variables, and functions.
Why?
- Neutralize the autocorrect mentality
- Question forty-five years of advice against expressiveness in the text of code
- Play against the compulsiveness of programming
- Embrace the chaos of JavaScript
Does it work?
- Sometimes!
How to use
Include fatfinger.js in your project, add a script tag with any misspelling of JavaScript containing your FatFingered code. You'll need to declare all your vars as if option explicit; FatFinger assumes implicit declarations are actually misspelled assignments. FatFinger has a poor concept of scope, so if you're doing fancy OO stuff, ask yourself: is there a good reason I haven't made everything global??? If so, this might not be the right library / coding style for you.
Set-up if you'd like to contribute:
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install grunt --save-dev
npm install grunt-contrib-jshint --save-dev
npm install grunt-contrib-nodeunit --save-dev
npm install grunt-contrib-concat --save-dev
npm install esprima
To update fatfinger.js:
grunt concat
To run the tests:
grunt nodeunit