[gregabbott]

A while ago, I wondered how close you could get to a pipeline operator using existing JavaScript features. In case anyone might like to have a look, I wrote a proof-of-concept function called "Chute" [1]. It chains function and method calls in a dot-notation style like the basic example below.

  chute(7)        // setup a chute and give it a seed value
  .toString       // call methods of the current data (parens optional)
  .parseInt       // send the current data through global native Fns
  .do(x=>[x])     // through a chain of one or more local / inline Fns
  .JSON.stringify // through nested global functions (native / custom)
  .JSON.parse
  .do(x=>x[0])
  .log            // through built in Chute methods
  .add_one        // global custom Fns (e.g. const add_one=x=>x+1)
  ()              // end a chute with '()' and get the result

[1] https://chute.pages.dev/ | https://github.com/gregabbott/chute