Uncino 🪝

Fast, tiny and solid hooks system for Javascript and NodeJS

Uncino is italian word for hook

Do you know Wordpress hooks system? Uncino is a hooks system highly inspired to it!

• Async / Await support
• Node or Browser support
• Actions / Hooks system
• Easy to use
• No Dependencies

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Installation

npm i uncino or yarn add uncino

Quick example

const uncino = require('uncino')
const hooks = uncino()

hooks.addHook('test', 'namespace', async (number) => {
  return number + 10
})

hooks.addHook('test', 'namespace', async (number) => {
  return number + 20
})

async function testHook(myNumber) {
  const newNumber = await hooks.runHook('test', myNumber)
  console.log(myNumber, newNumber)
}

testHook(3)  // 3 33
testHook(10)  // 10 40

Philosophy

Uncino permit to your code to interact/modify another piece of code at specific, pre-defined spots.

Uncino has two types of hooks: Actions and Hooks. To use either, you need to write a custom function, and then register for a specific action or hook.

Actions allow you to add data or change how your code operates. Actions will run at a specific point in the execution. Callback functions for Actions can perform some kind of a task, like echoing output to the user or inserting something into the database. Callback functions for an Action do not return anything back to the calling Action hook.

Hooks give you the ability to change data during the execution of your code. Callback functions for Hooks will accept a variable, modify it, and return it. They are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. Hooks expect to have something returned back to them.

With Uncino you can create your own hook spots so that other developers can extend and modify your code or you can create your pluggable core.

Hooks API

Method Name	Arguments	Description
addHook	hookName, namespace, callback, priority	Register callback as new hook for hookName in namespace with priority (default: 10).
removeHook	hookName, namespace	Remove hook for hookName in namespace
hasHook	hookName, namespace	Check if hook for hookName in namespace exists
removeAllHooks	hookName	Remove all hooks for hookName
runHook	hookName, params	Run hook for hookName with params. It returns a Promise with the hook result

Actions API

Method Name	Arguments	Description
addAction	actionName, namespace, callback, priority	Register callback as new action for actionName in namespace with priority (default: 10).
removeAction	actionName, namespace	Remove hook for actionName in namespace
hasAction	actionName, namespace	Check if hook for actionName in namespace exists
removeAllActions	actionName	Remove all actionss for actionName
runAction	actionName, params	Run action for actionName with params. It returns a Promise with void value

Example

Clone the repo and look in the test folder

Develop

Clone the repo then use npm install for download all the dependencies then launch npm run build for build the project

Pull Requests?

I'd love them!

Comments?

Let's hear them! (The nice ones please!)

Me?

In case you're interested I'm @argonautadev