Commit 721fab66 authored by Phil Hughes's avatar Phil Hughes

Merge branch 'doc-improve-side-effects-block' into 'master'

Improve docs about allowing some side effects on the constructor

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!17027
parents b8ee24e6 ee8ac683
......@@ -207,10 +207,39 @@ Do not use them anymore and feel free to remove them when refactoring legacy cod
var c = pureFunction(values.foo);
```
1. Avoid constructors with side-effects
1. Avoid constructors with side-effects.
Although we aim for code without side-effects we need some side-effects for our code to run.
If the class won't do anything if we only instantiate it, it's ok to add side effects into the constructor (_Note:_ The following is just an example. If the only purpose of the class is to add an event listener and handle the callback a function will be more suitable.)
```javascript
// Bad
export class Foo {
constructor() {
this.init();
}
init() {
document.addEventListener('click', this.handleCallback)
},
handleCallback() {
}
}
// Good
export class Foo {
constructor() {
document.addEventListener()
}
handleCallback() {
}
}
```
On the other hand, if a class only needs to extend a third party/add event listeners in some specific cases, they should be initialized oustside of the constructor.
1. Prefer `.map`, `.reduce` or `.filter` over `.forEach`
A forEach will cause side effects, it will be mutating the array being iterated. Prefer using `.map`,
A forEach will most likely cause side effects, it will be mutating the array being iterated. Prefer using `.map`,
`.reduce` or `.filter`
```javascript
const users = [ { name: 'Foo' }, { name: 'Bar' } ];
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