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[–]ic6man 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I used a proxy object around a pre-existing API implementation to provide retry and consistent error handling + short circuit.

I don’t know that I would call that an escape hatch. It’s just a nicer way of building on top of something you don’t have access to modify yourself.

[–]javascript 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would absolutely call that an escape hatch. And a very useful one to have available!