Threaded task chaining for JavaScript

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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.

1. Import Monkeydo from your repo clone or download

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

2. Define your JS methods

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

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

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

4. 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 trees of","green"); // 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