Thank you! That is amazing feedback :)

Thank you Victoria! Hopefully I'll be able to write some more about Firebase soon too!

Hahaha yeap me too! I can't resist clicking that juicy notifications button, and then - instantly distracted!

Really glad to hear that resonated with you too Arthur, thanks for reading!

Definitely some valid feedback Olivier. I'm working on this solo at the moment, but I can imagine it could potentially be confusing to work on for someone else.

Although, this pattern isn't necessarily something unique to JavaScript (or Typescript in this scenario), this treatment of functions as first class entities is one of the principles of functional programming in general.

For some more information, this sentence refers to a function I wrote, which is meant to write data to Firestore for a social media profile. In a function called writeSocialProfile, which accepts a function socialApiRequestFunction as a parameter.

This enables me to run different functions depending on the social media platform I'm looking at.

Essentially it just says "run getYoutubeProfile if socialName is youtube", and repeat that for each social media in a switch statement.

It definitely might not be as clean to read for new devs to the project, but it has a few benefits that IMO make it worthwhile.

It sped up my workflow of adding new social media platforms to the app, as my workflow could simply be:

• Write a new function xyz to get a user's profile from a new social media platform abc.
• Write integration tests in Jest for this new isolated function (Jest was probably not ideal for this)
• Once the tests pass, add a case in the existing switch statement, for this new function xyz to be returned when the value of socialName is abc

Definitely agree it might not be pretty to look at for people new to the codebase, but it made the flow a lot easier for me, with some added benefits of easy testing.

Jarrod Watts With adequate comments this should be ok ;)

And you're right, all other languages I've used allow such things: C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Php and Python.

The problem is always: the limits of maintainability vs fast coding.

Because you always end up with debugging someone else's code, I've chosen Python as my language for my job: it's much harder (still possible unfortunately...) to write "hard-to-understand" code.

Thanks Abhay! So happy to hear you found some inspiration from it 🥰

Haha that is awesome to hear Igor!

That's pretty much the exact situation that lead me to create this too, 😂 opening up so many tabs and then getting distracted!

Let me know how you find it! Open to any suggestions you might find.

Thanks a tonne Eleftheria! It's my first time posting on Product Hunt, so that really helps me out :)

Thank you so much Usman!

Those are some great ideas, I'll definitely add a progress bar for page changes and some way of sending feedback too.

Will let you know when they get added!

Thanks! Waiting for those ✌️! Jarrod Watts! You can take inspiration from this feedback box

Thanks Lalit! Really glad you enjoyed it :)