Remove lodash functions and recursive context mutation in string templates to increase performance

packages/string-templates/src/index.cjs

@@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ module.exports.processStringSync = (string, context) => {
   }
   // take a copy of input incase error
   const input = string
-  const clonedContext = removeNull(updateContext(cloneDeep(context)))
-  // remove any null/undefined properties
   if (typeof string !== "string") {
     throw "Cannot process non-string types."
   }
@@ -103,7 +101,10 @@ module.exports.processStringSync = (string, context) => {
     const template = hbsInstance.compile(string, {
       strict: false,
     })
-    return processors.postprocess(template(clonedContext))
+    return processors.postprocess(template({
+      now: new Date().toISOString(),
+      ...context,
+    }))
   } catch (err) {
     return removeHandlebarsStatements(input)
   }

packages/string-templates/src/utilities.js

@@ -11,38 +11,6 @@ module.exports.swapStrings = (string, start, length, swap) => {
   return string.slice(0, start) + swap + string.slice(start + length)
 }
 
-// removes null and undefined
-module.exports.removeNull = obj => {
-  obj = _(obj).omitBy(_.isUndefined).omitBy(_.isNull).value()
-  for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(obj)) {
-    // only objects
-    if (typeof value === "object" && !Array.isArray(value)) {
-      obj[key] = module.exports.removeNull(value)
-    }
-  }
-  return obj
-}
-
-module.exports.updateContext = obj => {
-  if (obj.now == null) {
-    obj.now = new Date().toISOString()
-  }
-  function recurse(obj) {
-    for (let key of Object.keys(obj)) {
-      if (!obj[key]) {
-        continue
-      }
-      if (obj[key] instanceof Date) {
-        obj[key] = obj[key].toISOString()
-      } else if (typeof obj[key] === "object") {
-        obj[key] = recurse(obj[key])
-      }
-    }
-    return obj
-  }
-  return recurse(obj)
-}
-
 module.exports.removeHandlebarsStatements = string => {
   let regexp = new RegExp(exports.FIND_HBS_REGEX)
   let matches = string.match(regexp)