Discussion on: Avoid use IF on our JS scripts

The article is nice, it gives some cool alternatives that not everyone might know about, a handful of which we use at work.

As others said, tho, some are harder to read.

A little side note about #4 and #5: it would be better to re-use the object and not to create it every time a function is called (eg: creating it inside array.map(), etc), it slows down your code a lot!

I'm saying this because it might not be obvious and also because I've had to refactor some code that was doing the exact same thing after I got hired 😊

A better approach would be to do something like this instead:

const createDogSwitcher = () =>{
  const objectSwitch = {
    border: 'Border Collies are good boys and girls.',
    pitbull: 'Pit Bulls are good boys and girls.',
    german: 'German Shepherds are good boys and girls.',  
  }

  const defaultString = 'Im the default.'

  return (breed) => objectSwitch[breed] || defaultString
}

const dogSwitch = createDogSwitcher()

dogSwitch('border xxx')

// Now use `dogSwitch` inside `map()`

If you want even better performance out of this, you can use a Map() instead of an object 🖖🏼

Edit: I think you have two #5s 🤔