unreduce

You've all heard of reducers, but nobody has told you about ✨unreducers✨! Similar to unfold, this package provides a higher-order function that recursively invokes a callback, appending the result of each invocation to an output array.

Usage

const unreduce = require('unreduce');

unreduce(initial, config, callback)

initial required (number, array, or object): The initial value(s) that are passed to the callback and from which the unreduction starts

config required (number, object)
When number: The length of the output array
When object:

• times (number): Number of times to run the callback function
• until (number): Run the callback funtion until the value it returns goes from greater than to less than or equal to this value, or less than to greater than or equal to this value

callback(element, index, base) required (function): The callback function used to calculate the next element of the array from the last

• element required (any): Last element of the array
• index optional (number): Current index of the last element of the array
• base optional (array): Entire current array

Examples:

// Simple length 5 array with addition
unreduce(0, 5, (n) => n + 2)
[0, 2, 4, 6, 8]

// Stop at -3
unreduce(0, {until: -3}, (n) => --n)
[0, -1, -2, -3]

// Run the callback 2 times
unreduce([10, 20, 30], {times: 2}, (n) => n + 10)
[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]

// Fibonacci Sequence
unreduce([0, 1],  30, (e, i, base) => base[i-1] + base[i-2])
[
      0,      1,      1,      2,      3,
      5,      8,     13,     21,     34,
     55,     89,    144,    233,    377,
    610,    987,   1597,   2584,   4181,
   6765,  10946,  17711,  28657,  46368,
  75025, 121393, 196418, 317811, 514229
]

// Powers of 2
unreduce(1, 5, (n) => n*2)
[ 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ]

// Another way to create powers of 2 with only addition
unreduce(2, 5, (e, i, base) => base.reduce((acc, el) => acc + el))
[ 2, 2, 4, 8, 16 ]

// simple sequence by using the iterator
unreduce(0, 5, (e, i) => i)
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

// manipulate a string
unreduce('abc', 4, (e) => e[2] + e[0] + e[1])
[ 'abc', 'cab', 'bca', 'abc']