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Copilot AI commented Jul 16, 2025

Transforms the minimal 2-line README into comprehensive documentation that makes the library easy to understand and use.

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📚 Complete Documentation Added:

  • Installation instructions with npm commands
  • Basic usage examples for quick start
  • Detailed API documentation with parameters, return values, and error conditions
  • Extensive examples covering all JavaScript data types (numbers, strings, booleans, objects, arrays, functions)
  • Practical use cases for configuration management, user data handling, and API response processing
  • Edge cases documentation including error conditions and falsy value behavior
  • Comparison with SQL COALESCE for familiarity
  • Development section with testing, linting, and coverage instructions
  • Contributing guidelines for open source collaboration
  • Professional badges and proper attribution

🔍 Key Features Documented:

const { coalesce } = require('@everymundo/coalesce');

// Basic usage
coalesce(undefined, null, '', 'first truthy value'); // 'first truthy value'

// Configuration with fallbacks
const config = {
  port: coalesce(process.env.PORT, process.env.DEFAULT_PORT, 3000),
  host: coalesce(process.env.HOST, 'localhost')
};

// Edge cases clearly explained
coalesce(null, []); // [] (empty array is truthy)
coalesce(); // TypeError (no arguments)

Quality Assurance:

  • All 20+ code examples tested and verified to work correctly
  • Existing tests continue to pass
  • Code follows project linting standards (StandardJS)
  • Documentation accurately reflects actual library behavior
  • Comprehensive coverage of falsy vs truthy values in JavaScript

The library now has professional-grade documentation that transforms it from a minimal utility into a well-documented, discoverable package ready for broader adoption.

Fixes #15.


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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits July 16, 2025 18:50
Co-authored-by: danielsan <261488+danielsan@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: danielsan <261488+danielsan@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Create a README to document how to use the features of this library Create comprehensive README documentation for coalesce.js library Jul 16, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from danielsan July 16, 2025 18:54
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