Show HN: Aspect-oriented mixins in JavaScript

Very cool. I'm very interested to see what you'll build with it.

With any cross-cutting abstraction like this, it's kind of like developing a new potting soil: I feel like I need to know what flowers you're trying to grow to understand why you made the choices you made.

Thanks. I was writing an application that had unrelated components that all acted like view models.

I looked at existing mixin libraries, but found some that either injected themselves into the prototype chain or patched Function.prototype to let mixees customize behavior. I didn't like that, so I thought of this approach.

The rest has been a continuous process of simplification, but I never got back to writing that old application :).

Nice idea! Here's an alternative which uses ES2016 decorators https://github.com/mgechev/aspect.js

Thanks for sharing! Have you studied aspect-oriented programming formally?

I used the term "aspect-oriented" because a co-worker mentioned it and it seemed appropriate, but I don't have a deep understanding of that philosophy.

I'll take a look at your code, blog posts, and videos later when I get out of work. :)

It's everything but AOP

yeah, i should probably change that tonight