https://itsnikhil.github.io/blog/categories/javascript/ Recent content in JavaScript on ItsNikhil Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us ItsNikhil Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:30:00 +0000 https://itsnikhil.github.io/blog/posts/clarify-function-calls-with-keyword-arguments-javascript/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:30:00 +0000 https://itsnikhil.github.io/blog/posts/clarify-function-calls-with-keyword-arguments-javascript/ While working with many JavaScript libraries you might have come across this common pattern where in the function call you pass an object many-a-times often referred as options. There is a reason why this is a common good practice and in this article I will be giving the reasoning behind this practice. Common options pattern Let’s say you are working on an existing codebase and see the following code twitter_search('@obama', False, 20, True) Some eagle eyed person amongst you might have noticed I have F and T capital in Boolean, that’s because it’s not JavaScript.