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POV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Can you override Math.random within a local scope?

At my shop we do create generic covers for vendor specific functionality, for the reasons you stated. Though the practice was started in case we ever needed to swap vendors.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago

You can, but you shouldn’t. You don’t know what else relies on Math.random. That’s why there’s the wrapper function. That you can override in unit tests without worrying about other, unrelated code.

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