The second you write `else { return false; }` you should lose the privilege of calling yourselves a dev, from then on. Period.

Example,
if(condition) {
// ...some code
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

you just wrote it... see rant

now stop calling yourself a dev

Teeechnically I wrote it twice, and you know that two negatives make a positive.

Haha, checkmate fam.

if(!condition) {

return false;

} else {

// ...some code

return true;

}

@Grumm you're proud of yourselves aren't you

If the condition is a long expression, then this is better. But then it’s even better to store it in a variable with a meaningful name and then return it directly:

let iAmBraindead = myIQ <= 0 || myName.startsWith("o") && myName.endsWith("m")
return iAmBraindead

@Lensflare I see what you did there. Nicely done lol 😆😆

Stop using "else" statements.
Problem fixed.

the moment you used an "if".

Who cares - the only thing I really care about is if our code is simple, explicit, and easy to understand for better team cohesion

@shovethisrant suck my cohesion

Nope, not how it works

Replace that with just returning condition

i'm partial to returning an object or False if a failure occured. it's like returning null but it won't break shit if you try to do other things with it, so you can be a little late in error handling if required for whatever reason. This doesn't apply if you have a language that doesn't have auto-casting, however.