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Clean Code in JavaScript

You're reading from   Clean Code in JavaScript Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789957648
Length 548 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: What is Clean Code Anyway?
2. Setting the Scene FREE CHAPTER 3. The Tenets of Clean Code 4. The Enemies of Clean Code 5. SOLID and Other Principles 6. Naming Things Is Hard 7. Section 2: JavaScript and Its Bits
8. Primitive and Built-In Types 9. Dynamic Typing 10. Operators 11. Parts of Syntax and Scope 12. Control Flow 13. Section 3: Crafting Abstractions
14. Design Patterns 15. Real-World Challenges 16. Section 4: Testing and Tooling
17. The Landscape of Testing 18. Writing Clean Tests 19. Tools for Cleaner Code 20. Section 5: Collaboration and Making Changes
21. Documenting Your Code 22. Other Peoples' Code 23. Communication and Advocacy 24. Case Study 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing intuitive assertions

The core of any test is its assertions. An assertion prescribes exactly what we expect to occur, and so it is vital not only that we craft it accurately but that we craft it in a way that our expectation is made utterly clear.

A single test will usually involve several assertions. And a test will typically follow the form of: given an input of X, do I receive an output of Y? Sometimes, establishing Y is complex and may not be constrained to a singular assertion. We may want to introspect Y to confirm that it is truly the desired output.

Consider a function named getActiveUsers(users), which will return only the active users from a set of all users. We may wish to make several assertions about its output:

const activeUsers = getActiveUsers([
{ name: 'Bob', active: false },
{ name: 'Sue', active: true },
{ name: 'Yin&apos...
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