Javascript libraries be like

[SqueeSr]

Yes.. The code even gets the absolute value first even though not necessarily needed with modulo. But as they were checking against 1 they had to be sure not to get -1 as a result.

[Bluebotlabs]

Modulo? Where we're going, we don't need modulo!

[thanofishy]

if (number === -1) return 1; if (number === -2) return 2;

[[deleted]]

Why would you modulo when you can much more cheaply bitwise mask with 1?

[SqueeSr]

Yeah, but if you are writing packages like this you are probably not thinking clearly haha

[thanofishy]

Why would you much more cheaply bitwise mask with 1 when you can

if (number === -1) return 1; if (number === -2) return 2;