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But this property is defined as undefined…
After all these years, JavaScript still occasionally trips me up. Today, I built a test that was failing mysteriously. I use Chai to write my assertions, and that particular test was failing to agree that the array I had constructed was deeply equal to its theoretical value. WebStorm’s test tooling has a diff visualization for deep object or array equality, and this was showing the arrays as equal:
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For the love of OCD, show whitespace in your IDE
It’s a simple thing, and it will make it immediately obvious when one of your files contains accidental indentation tabs instead of the spaces that should replace them, or trailing spaces. All IDE and code editors have an option to show whitespace. I always have it enabled. The subtle glyphs that will materialize the spaces and tabs are hardly noticeable while you’re working, except when something unusual is where it shouldn’t be:
