{"id":28627,"date":"2018-06-12T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28627"},"modified":"2018-06-12T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:36:00","slug":"inflected-a-port-of-activesupports-inflector-to-node-js-and-the-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/12\/inflected-a-port-of-activesupports-inflector-to-node-js-and-the-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflected – a port of ActiveSupport’s inflector to Node.js and the browser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the last few years I have been heavily involved in building web applications with the CakePHP framework<\/a>.\u00a0 Apart from all the usual MVC, ORM, and so on, and so forth, features, I am a big fan of the CakePHP utilities.\u00a0 And among all of them, my long time favorite is the Inflector class<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Inflector class makes makes word transformations a breeze – camel-casing, snake-casing, plural, singular, and so on – work like a charm at least for the English language.\u00a0 It’s also possible to use the same functionality for other languages, but that would require quite a bit of the linguistic expertise.<\/p>\n

I’ve got so used to the inflections that I miss them every single time I have to step out of the CakePHP framework.\u00a0 This doesn’t happen very often for me in the PHP domain, but JavaScript is a totally different story.<\/p>\n

The other day I came across the inflected library<\/a>, which brings most of the CakePHP’s Inflector to JavaScript, via either a Node.JS NPM package, or a simple inclusion of the JavaScript file to the page source and laying off all the hard work on to the browser.<\/p>\n

I’m a lot happier with my universe now.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

For the last few years I have been heavily involved in building web applications with the CakePHP framework.\u00a0 Apart from all the usual MVC, ORM, and so on, and so forth, features, I am a big fan of the CakePHP utilities.\u00a0 And among all of them, my long time favorite is the Inflector class. The … Continue reading Inflected – a port of ActiveSupport’s inflector to Node.js and the browser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Inflected - a port of ActiveSupport's inflector to Node.js and the browser #WebDev #PHP #JavaScript #CakePHP #NodeJS #language","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[1537,3063,1139,243,3209,38,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-cakephp","tag-frameworks","tag-javascript","tag-language","tag-nodejs","tag-php","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t