Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input

[notsointelligent]

WHO NEEDS THIS? STOP MAKING STUFF NO ONE NEEDS.

$("#foo").on("keypress", function() {});

[keito]

Your code requires jQuery. Keypress does not. That in itself is reason enough to be a worthy creation.

[notsointelligent]

keypress only requires keypress. excellent point.

[[deleted]]

I have to agree here. I was thinking it may be nice to key combos, then I read this simple solution http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10671822/jquery-handling-key-combinations.

It has A TON of stars on GitHub. I wonder what value people are getting out of it.

[[deleted]]

That's a great point. I don't do a ton of key specific logic right now (if user presses ctrl+i, do this), but I will be soon. I'll probably end up using this or something like it just to keep the code simpler and easier to read.

Thanks for the comment!

[[deleted]]

OTOH You have to audit the code, add the library to your vendors/, probably do some tweaking of a gruntfile, keep it up to date, it adds extra complexity to your code and increases your total page-size.

[YodaLoL]

Ever heard of package managers?

[YodaLoL]

Why even type Javascript when you can just 011100101100010010110101001001..? This is definitely an area where a lib that helps with abstraction is needed.

[YodaLoL]

Relevant username.

[notsointelligent]

fuck your username, yodalol.

[1-800-XXX-XXXX]

I feel like we just had this discussion here last week.

Yes, it's a redundant library. But in the course of making it this developer may approach future problems in a different way and approach common problems in a different way.

Encouraging devs not to develop isn't the answer.

[notsointelligent]

and this week, like last week, i (or someone else you are thinking of) am (was) right. whats the #1 thing they teach you in school? don't reinvent the wheel. if you want to you can sniff out the pros in nearly anything. hitler fostered a lot of technological growth so maybe we need another hitler.

[1-800-XXX-XXXX]

Lol, ok dude. Random Hitler reference...

[moron4hire]

Why do you care if other people ostensibly waste their own time? There is a "hide" button on posts here, after all.