It looks like this is a handlebars helper.
Handlebars is a temptating language.
I’ve never used handlebars but I’m guessing this is syntactic sugar for non-programmers. Like:
<div>{{if is-even myVariable}} it's even {{else}} it's odd {{endif}}</div>
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 11 months ago
Looking at their code, it’s really just a bunch of checks to make sure the variable passed is actually an integer that it can work with, followed by the solution:
return (n % 2) === 1;
I can’t think of a more efficient way to get the answer. It does seem like it’d take more time to download the package than to just write the function yourself, though.
Sunrosa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ohh. JS needs you to check the variable during runtime??? That’s… something. I guess that’s what you get for using dynamic typing everywhere. I still bet it’d be faster to do the function by hand though.