crossfilterplus - Wrapper over crossfilter : Data manipulation is config driven now !

I noticed the fact that crossfilter is useful for data manipulation, not just at client side  ( as used in winlose analyzer) but the crossfilter npm module is useful as well ( it is used in comparator ). People are interested to use it but most of the times they are not willing to put extra code for the same. Hence I came up with the idea of making crossfilter config driven and hence named it - crossfilterplus. It is available at https://www.npmjs.com/package/crossfilterplus :)

One can use the commonly used methods such as dimension, group as standalone as well ( as shown in the following example ) as per their requirement. It can be used through config as well as shown below: 

To use it, please do the following:

var crossfilterPlus = require('crossfilterplus')

var data = [

  {date: "2011-11-14T16:17:54Z", quantity: 2, total: 190, tip: 100, type: "tab"},

  {date: "2011-11-14T16:20:19Z", quantity: 2, total: 190, tip: 100, type: "tab"},

  {date: "2011-11-14T16:28:54Z", quantity: 1, total: 300, tip: 200, type: "visa"},

  {date: "2011-11-14T17:22:59Z", quantity: 2, total: 90, tip: 0, type: "tab"},

  {date: "2011-11-14T17:25:45Z", quantity: 2, total: 200, tip: 0, type: "cash"},

  {date: "2011-11-14T17:29:52Z", quantity: 1, total: 200, tip: 100, type: "visa"}

]

Example -

#1 Access standalone methods

crossfilterPlus.data(data) // data method helps to create a crossfilter instance on the input dataset

var manipulateData = crossfilterPlus

   .dimension(['total','tip']) 

   .group()

   .all()

There is no need to create crossfilter instance and use it everytime to perform operation. crossfilterPlus is able to handle it. 

#2 Pass config 

Config :-

var config = {

  data: data, //required

  dimension: ['total','tip'], //could be a string or array or function else it shows a warning - mandatory 

  aggregate: 'sum', // by default it is count, works for sum. Need to enable more computation here

  measure: 'tip' // needed if aggregation is not count 

}

I intend to enhance this config more to make it available for sorting and other computations as well. Currently it groups based on the dimension layer.

After preparing the config - crossfilterPlus.build(config) will perform grouping based on the dimension applied over the input with aggregation as per measure  and will give same output as  manipulateData in #1  :) 

For reference to the above approaches, please refer API reference - https://github.com/Crossfilterplus/crossfilterplus/wiki/API-reference 

It is available at github at - https://github.com/Crossfilterplus/crossfilterplus

The future plans for it are as follow: 

• Make it more config driven
• Make nested grouping in crossfilterplus
• Try to integrate it with d3plus (https://github.com/alexandersimoes/d3plus/issues/110)

It will be great to have your suggestion as well. Please feel free to raise issues at the github repo as well. Since yesterday, there are +16 downloads :)