Message from JavaScript discussions

July 2017

— But seriously, wait till you see how that function is used, it will make your head spin

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There is this multi-headed medusa function which sits right at the top of the sequence when a user calls loadTemplate, it branches SO MUCH it makes my head hurt

— So I put that in a function inside that function, because all the branches have to perform that operation but in different ways

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— Uhhhh

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if (cachedDoc !== null) {

  // Synchronous

  return insertionThunk(cachedDoc);

} else {

  if (conf.isFile) {

  // Asynchronous XHR

  return getTemplateXHR(templLoc, conf).then(saveInsertionThunk);

  } else {

    // Synchronous

    return saveInsertionThunk(getTemplateDOM(templLoc));

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— *ahem*

—

if (x) {
  return y;
} else {
  // rest of logic
}

— You see a problem here?

— What you see is a little cache check

— If we don't have a cached document, we go get it in the else

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if (cachedDoc !== null) {
  return insertionThunk(cachedDoc);
}
if (conf.isFile) {
  return getTemplateXHR(templLoc, conf).then(saveInsertionThunk);
}
return saveInsertionThunk(getTemplateDOM(templLoc));

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— saveInsertionThunk is a function which calls conf.cache.saveDoc(templLoc, templDoc); before calling insertionThunk

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