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 from your repo clone or download

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

Define your JS methods

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

Define your tasks in a JSON file (or directly in JavaScript)

{
  "tasks": [
    [0,"myJavaSriptMethod","I see skies of","blue"],
    [300,"myJavaSriptMethod","red","roses too"],
    [160,"myJavaSriptMethod","I see them","bloom"],
    [1200,"myJavaSriptMethod","for","me and you"]
  ]
}

Initialize and run Monkeydo with your methods and manifest

const monkey = new Monkeydo(methods,manifest);
monkey.do();

The example above would be the same as running:

console.log("I see skies","of blue"); // Right away
console.log("red","roses too"); // 300 milliseconds after the first
console.log("I see them","bloom"); // 160 milliseconds after that one
console.log("for","me and you"); // and lastly, 1200 after that