Mention tools for identifying magic numbers #98
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| Woo hoo bring on the tools 🎉 You've got some great ones! Tell Greg I say Hi by the way! |
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https://github.com/danielstjules/buddy.js is a tool that exists to identify magic numbers. Here's the result of running the example in the readme:
Here's another example from the buddy.js readme:
I also mention eslint, which added a magic number rule based on buddy.js in https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/660e0918933e6e7fede26bc675a0763a6b357c94/lib/rules/no-magic-numbers.js#L2 Not sure if it handles the same test cases, but it's the only general linter I know of that detects these things.