alphabets/docs/about/why.md

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Why would I use this?

I have seen developers doing this:

const alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('');

Or worse:

const alphabet = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"];

My opinion about this? 🙄. It's ugly, it makes your code less readable (read: ugly) and it's simply not something you should want to have in your code! Instead, you should do it like so:

import { latin } from 'alphabets';
// or
const alphabets = require('alphabets');

Much cleaner, right? That's why I made this package.

Why not?

I see very few reasons not to use this package.

But doesn't it cost me performance?

No. This package is only <800 bytes so it should not cost you any performance. Neither via CDN nor if you use a bundler like webpack, Parcel or Rollup.

Why not making an array on my own?

It's a choice. This whole package is opinionated. I think you should not do const alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split(''); in your code. I think you should use a package for that. Do you think it's OK to define your own alphabet array? Do that!