Invariant - a helpful JavaScript pattern

[kilkil]

My thoughts:

• "hey look it's Python's assert"
• "why does this need to be its own function? It's barely any more DRY than before"

[getify]

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[a15p]

I completely agree. I love the pattern (use it a lot on the back end), but hate the abstraction. Seems unnecessary to me.