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Shivam Waghmare
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Introducing `coderkit` — A Practical Utility Toolkit for Everyday JavaScript Work

If you’ve been writing JavaScript for more than 10 minutes, you already know one thing:
you keep rewriting the same tiny utility functions over and over again.

That’s stupidly inefficient.

So I built coderkit, a lightweight, practical utility toolkit meant to kill repetitive code and give you a clean, reliable set of helpers you actually use in day-to-day dev work.

No clutter. No over-engineered “generic utility abstraction patterns.”
Just real functions solving real problems.


What Exactly Is coderkit?

A compact collection of JS utilities that handle common tasks cleanly and consistently.

It currently includes basic foundational helpers, and the goal is to expand it into:

50+ real-world utilities — string helpers, array manipulation, date processing, financial calculators, object operations, and more.

The focus is on:

  • Simplicity
  • Readability
  • Daily usefulness
  • Zero unnecessary bloat

🔧 Feature Categories in coderkit

This section breaks down what the toolkit actually aims to offer.


📘 Math Utilities

Forget rewriting the same formulas all the time. These helpers cover:

  • Accurate arithmetic (fix JS floating-point nonsense)
  • Range clamping
  • Percentage helpers
  • Rounding utilities
  • Average, sum, min/max helpers

Clean math logic without surprises.


📦 Array Utilities

Probably the most repetitive area in JS development. coderkit includes:

  • Unique filtering
  • Deep flatten
  • Chunking
  • Smart sorting
  • Grouping
  • Safe merging

These are the functions every dev ends up rewriting from scratch in every new project.


🧩 Object Utilities

JS objects get messy fast. These utilities keep them predictable:

  • Deep clone (properly)
  • Deep merge
  • Safe nested property access
  • Object diff
  • Key/value transformers
  • Cleanup helpers (remove empty/null values)

No more hacks or slow lodash clones unless you actually need them.


🔡 String Utilities

Small helpers you constantly need:

  • Capitalize, title case
  • Trim variations
  • Slugify
  • Random string/ID generator
  • Regex-safe replace helpers
  • Case-insensitive comparisons

Perfect for both frontend UI logic and backend formatting.


💰 Financial Utilities

This category matters because financial logic gets tricky quickly:

  • Tax calculations
  • Discount logic
  • EMI calculators
  • Profit/loss helpers
  • Currency formatting
  • Financial rounding (banker’s rounding, etc.)

Useful for dashboards, billing systems, inventory apps, or any business-related UI.


🎯 Purpose — Why coderkit Exists

Most JS projects don’t need a massive library like Lodash, but they still need small helper functions.

Instead of installing 40kb of code to use only one function…

coderkit gives you the exact utilities you need — nothing more, nothing less.

  • Tiny package
  • Modular imports
  • Beginner-friendly
  • Works in any JS/TS project
  • Clean, readable code

This toolkit is meant to be practical, not academic.


📦 Installation

npm install coderkit
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Usage is straightforward:

import { add, subtract, multiply } from "coderkit";

console.log(add(5, 10)); // 15
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🧭 Roadmap (Focused & Realistic)

  • Add 50+ essential utilities
  • Improve documentation
  • Full TypeScript support
  • Add benchmarks and performance notes
  • Release v1.0 with all planned categories

🔗 Useful Links

Contributions, suggestions, and criticism are always welcome.
If something sucks, say it. That’s how the tool improves.

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