sniff

v0.1.3
JS Type and Prototype Sniffing

sniff

This is a simple wrapper to Angus Croll's typeOf function defined in his article Fixing the Javascript typeof operator.

Additionally, it includes a subsequent test to determine whether a function is a functional prototype, and therefore something that would be suitable for calling with the new operator. A value of prototype is returned from the function in event that:

  • the target has been detected as a function through Angus's previous logic
  • the prototype of the function has some keys defined on it. While this is not a conclusive test (suggestions definitely welcome) I think it covers most of the cases where people are using JS prototypes in their code.

As always, feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Unknown
  • >= 0.4.x < 0.9.0
  • Damon Oehlman
  • released 6/27/2012

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