Menu

Zero, missing, or triggered: a small formatter for game-reference stats
📰

Zero, missing, or triggered: a small formatter for game-reference stats

DEV Community: frontend·姜炜奇·3 days ago
#CunmHvUp
#devtofrontend#devto#dev#record#value
Reading 0:00
15s threshold

Disclosure: I maintain AzerothSurvivors.app, an independent fan reference for Aethus's game. This article and its illustrative code were prepared with AI assistance. The code below is a standalone example, not extracted game code or a claim about the site's implementation.

A stat table can be numerically tidy and still be misleading. A cooldown of zero, an unavailable cooldown, and an effect activated by an event should not all render as 0 s .

The problem is especially easy to introduce while converting loosely structured data for a static page. A default such as value || 0 silently treats missing information as a known zero. Converting everything to a number before checking it can also erase the distinction.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.