Threaded task chaining for JavaScript

Monkeydo uses the portable data format JSON to read tasks, making it easy to read by primates and machines alike.

{
  "tasks": [
    [0,"myJavaSriptMethod","someArgument","anotherArgument"]
  ]
}

Array key	Description
0	Delay Wait this many milliseconds before running this task
1	Method Name of the JavaScript method to call
2+n	Arguments Some amount of arguments to pass to the method

Use Monkeydo

Monkeydo comes as an importable ECMAScript 6 module. In this guide we'll import this directly from a ./modules/ folder, but any web-accesible location will work.

Import Monkeydo as an ES6 module

import { default as Monkeydo } from "./modules/Monkeydo/Monkeydo.mjs";

Define your JS methods in an object

const methods = {
  myJavaScriptMethod: (foo,bar) => {
    console.log(foo,bar);
  }
}

Define your tasks in a JSON manifest (file or JSON-compatible JavaScript)

{
  "tasks": [
    [0,"myJavaSriptMethod","Just like a","monkey"],
    [1200,"myJavaSriptMethod","I've been","dancing"],
    [160,"myJavaSriptMethod","my whole","life"]
  ]
}

Initialize and run Monkeydo with your methods and manifest

const monkey = new Monkeydo(methods);
monkey.play(manifest);

The example above would be the same as running:

console.log("Just like a","monkey"); // Right away
console.log("I've been","dancing"); // 1.2 seconds after the first
console.log("my whole","life"); // and then 160 milliseconds after the second