When hydrate is installed with npm install hydrate it doesn't call the compile-dev.sh script automatically. It is needed to be run by hand.

It was tested under ubuntu 14.04

Hydrate.prototype.analyze does not have a case to handle input == null (type coercion intended), causing it to fail with a TypeError when goes into the default case.

I have been playing around with HydrateJS and it seems to work pretty well. Is there any reason why HydrateJS is not available via NPM? I would be glad to submit a patch with a package file and a cake file (would then be buildable on windows then without cygwin) if that is the only reason its not on NPM.

The hydrate version installed with npm install hydrate does not contains theese commits:

• 2e36e33
• dbad0c0
• eabb32f

var h = new Hydrate();
h.parse(h.stringify([false]))[0];   // {"__h_cons":"Boolean"}
h.parse(h.stringify([true]))[0];    // {"__h_cons":"Boolean"}
h.parse(h.stringify({f: false})).f; // {}
h.parse(h.stringify(false));        // {}

// TypeError: Boolean.prototype.valueOf is not generic
h.parse(h.stringify(false)).valueOf();

The primitive value never seems to re-emerge and the Booleans produced are broken.

var obj = { show: function() {
console.log('ok');
}};

// error: Couldn't serialize object; had non-prototype function

Tested in both Chrome and Firefox:

function Foo() {}
Foo.prototype.toString = function() { return "Foo"; };

foo = new Foo();
foo.hasOwnProperty('toString'); // => false

var hydrate = new Hydrate();
foo = hydrate.parse(hydrate.stringify(new Foo()));

foo.hasOwnProperty('toString'); // => true

As a result of this I can't re-serialize the object because it now has properties with functions and, on longer prototype chains, it also has an enumerable constructor property.

If you add undefined to the list of primitives, the "should serialize primitives" test fails:

it("should serialize primitives", function() {
  var inputs = [undefined, 3, "foo", ["a", 3, "bar"]]