Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· padawin

Unnecessary elses

I often see code like that:

function foo() {
    if (condition) {
        return something;
    } else {
        doSomethingElse();
    }
}

Because the first condition returns and is followed with an else, this can be simplified into:

function foo() {
    if (condition) {
        return something;
    }

    doSomethingElse();
}

Which remove an indentation level and simplifies the code readability, in my opinion.