me: when I'm bored and trying to find something to do, often I find myself thinking "I should refactor and rewrite my javascript codebase"
doctor: I don't think that means you have a brain tumor, but we can do a check anyway
var? let? consts?
why not combine them, to vaconst!
I also made a fun typo, where I set the description to "Death Generator is a tool to make fake videogame screenshits"
number of times (so far) I've misspelled "number" while working on this refactor:
2 (nunmber and nubmer)
misspelled "justify" as "justifdy"
I'm pretty sure the idiot who designed this codebase was specifically trying to make sure it couldn't be easily typescriptified
it's based around a giant object which has no schema, since it's just a raw JSON object, and it handles the existence or non-existence of various parts at runtime.
it also makes heavy use of a "first" function, which works by returning the first argument that isn't undefined
so instead of something like:
const fontScale = 'scale' in fontInfo ? fontInfo['scale'] : 2
it does:
const fontScale = first(fontInfo['scale'], 2)
