I used to think that if my JavaScript ran without errors, I had done my job. If the feature shipped, the console stayed quiet, and the tests passed, I’d mentally roll for loot and move on. Victory secured. XP gained. On to the next quest. But somewhere between shipping features and revisiting old projects, I started noticing something uncomfortable: working code is not the same thing as readable code. And…
If you’d asked me years ago what JavaScript was for, I would’ve answered the same way most people do. Buttons.Animations.Stuff that happens when you click things. That answer isn’t wrong – but it’s incomplete in the way early character builds usually are. You understand the surface mechanics, but not the role the class actually plays once the campaign gets serious. The longer I’ve worked with JavaScript, the more I’ve realized…