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I’ve been working a lot with a legacy code-base lately. And this one is particularly troublesome. It has all the hallmarks of a rush job. The code is brittle. There are no tests. Things often seem to break at random. And to my embarrassment, I wrote most of it. So, I've been thinking about how I ended up here. How did the code get so intertwined and brittle? And how do I prevent it in future?

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software developer with over 20 years of experience in various domains. Rich has worked on s...

The return early pattern in JavaScript is a simple way to reduce the number of else statements within a function body to zero. There are many reasons to prefer this pattern over using else statements.    Reducing the total amount of code on the page Reduce line length by reducing logical complexity Improve Readability     The essence of the return early pattern is to replace the need for else conditionals in JavaScript functions by using the return keyword in the body of the if statement.   Let ...