State of the project

[guettli]

There were no updates since more than one year.

Please tell us the state of this project.

[mcdoolz]

I have spent the last day trying to make this library work for a NodeJS app as described in the documentation and have had no luck :(
Firing the return function for all rows as described simply returns the entire function (as it should).
Any functions described are met with undefined.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[guettli]

@mcdoolz I think your issue should be created as new issue here on github.

[Dakine135]

I would also like to know the state of the project. It seems unreasonable that it has over 700k weekly downloads on npm at the time of this post.

[typicaljoe]

Hey @Dakine135. I'm no longer actively working on the project. The core project is "feature complete" meaning I wasn't intending to take it further down the path to being either a true database or a JavaScript framework. I wasn't aware of the heavy usage on npm. I'll look through the issues and see if I can address them (license in particular) although I'd happy to have help. Taffy predates any of my usage of NPM.

[Dakine135]

Thanks for your quick response. It does seem odd for something that is fairly niche, and an abandoned project.

[nuxy]

@typicaljoe

It's 2023 and many third-party projects still rely on this package. It's unfortunate, but that is the reality.

If you're discontinuing support for this project, how about passing the torch to someone who will? ✋

[typicaljoe]

@nuxy are you saying you are interested? It could use the help…

[Dakine135]

I would be interested.

[nuxy]

@typicaljoe

On the fence right now (leaning yes, I love challenges) but still reviewing the script logic, open issues, pull requests..

Based on my initial review the first course of action (road to stable) would be:

• Replace the test suit (Mocha/Chai or equivalent) as I could not get the current test suite to work locally.
• Unravel/refactor this ternary chain into smaller, manageable parts.
• Add guards to resolve the Internal Property Tampering (open issue)

Will spend more time on this over the weekend. Will keep you posted.