In JavaScript, everything is 'truthy' or 'falsy', and for numbers 0
means false
, everything else true
. So you could write:
if ($(selector).length)
You don't need that >0
part.
I use javascript:void(0)
.
Three reasons. Encouraging the use of #
amongst a team of developers inevitably leads to some using the return value of the function called like this:
function doSomething() {
//Some code
return false;
}
But then they forget to use return doSomething()
in the onclick and just use doSomething()
.
A second reason for avoiding #
is that the final return false;
will not execute if the called function throws an error. Hence the developers have to also remember to handle any error appropriately in the called function.
A third reason is that there are cases where the onclick
event property is assigned dynamically. I prefer to be able to call a function or assign it dynamically without having to code the function specifically for one method of attachment or another. Hence my onclick
(or on anything) in HTML markup look like this:
onclick="someFunc.call(this)"
OR
onclick="someFunc.apply(this, arguments)"
Using javascript:void(0)
avoids all of the above headaches, and I haven't found any examples of a downside.
So if you're a lone developer then you can clearly make your own choice, but if you work as a team you have to either state:
Use href="#"
, make sure onclick
always contains return false;
at the end, that any called function does not throw an error and if you attach a function dynamically to the onclick
property make sure that as well as not throwing an error it returns false
.
OR
Use href="javascript:void(0)"
The second is clearly much easier to communicate.
Best Answer
By default Mocha will read a file named
test/mocha.opts
that can contain command line arguments. So you could create such a file that contains:Whenever you run Mocha at the command line, it will read this file and set a timeout of 5 seconds by default.
Another way which may be better depending on your situation is to set it like this in a top level
describe
call in your test file:This would allow you to set a timeout only on a per-file basis.
You could use both methods if you want a global default of 5000 but set something different for some files.
Note that you cannot generally use an arrow function if you are going to call
this.timeout
(or access any other member ofthis
that Mocha sets for you). For instance, this will usually not work:This is because an arrow function takes
this
from the scope the function appears in. Mocha will call the function with a good value forthis
but that value is not passed inside the arrow function. The documentation for Mocha says on this topic: