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Malte Büchmann •

Very nice article. But I think I found one catch:

The rewrite in the second example for ternary operators makes the code very unreadable. The cumbersome part of this example are the else statements. If you use guard clauses if statements, the code becomes much more readable and concise:

function customerValidation(customer) {
  if (!customer.email) {
    return error('email is require');
  } 
  if (!customer.login) {
    return error('login is required');
  }
  if (!customer.name) {
    return error('name is required');
  }
  return customer;
}
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In this case, you can even remove the curly braces:

function customerValidation(customer) {
  if (!customer.email)
    return error('email is require');  
  if (!customer.login)
    return error('login is required');
  if (!customer.name)
    return error('name is required');

  return customer;
}
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Now both versions are much more readable and the reader can understand the intent of the written code much better: catch errors and return them.

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Damian Cipolat •

thanks for comment!