Why you should care
Creating a new Error without actually throwing it is useless and is probably due to a mistake.
How we detect
CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time ‘throw‘ is not used before the ‘new‘ operator used to instanciate an error class (Error | EvalError | InternalError | RangeError | ReferenceError | SyntaxError | TypeError | URIError).
Bad Code
if (x < 0) {
new Error("x must be nonnegative");
}
Good Code
if (x < 0) {
throw new Error("x must be nonnegative");
}
References
About CAST and Highlight’s Code Insights
Over the last 25 years, CAST has leveraged unique knowledge on software quality measurement by analyzing thousands of applications and billions of lines of code. Based on this experience and community standards on programming best practices, Highlight implements hundreds of code insights across 15+ technologies to calculate health factors of a software.