Best thing to do is just separate the super important busine

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Best thing to do is just separate the super important business logic into a non netsuite module and you can test that all day

stalbert · Answer

that s one benefit of NFT Since it surfaces NS records as POJOs writing unit tests is easy It s just plain POJOs in the unit tests and NSDAL objects when run in NS without code changes

stalbert · Answer

i e no mocking required

creece · Answer

but aren t you just testing the framework at that point

creece · Answer

or are you testing the actual business logic

stalbert · Answer

no framework is already tested we are testing actual business logic only

creece · Answer

that is pretty appealing then

stalbert · Answer

say I have a function that takes a salesorder and does some business logic with it returning some result

creece · Answer

an entire sales order

stalbert · Answer

our unit tests just pass in a POJO representing the SO e g ` sofield1 hi sofield2 there `

creece · Answer

Yeah that makes sense

stalbert · Answer

without NFT NSDAL specifically you have to resort to funky mocking and such and the tests and business logic is far less understandable

creece · Answer

You ve abstracted the netsuite side of things into some javascript style

stalbert · Answer

exactly

creece · Answer

Yeah that is how you have to do it whether you use TS or not so either way you got it right

creece · Answer

its good to hear people are unit testing for sure

stalbert · Answer

Yes NFT NSDAL was useful long before we started using TS

stalbert · Answer

For us TS means a few things in the most basic sense having type definitions for something like a SalesOrder reduces typos and a few bugs

stalbert · Answer

another thing it helps with is modern JS syntax arrow functions spread operators decorators consts classes etc Since suitescript tends to be verbose shorter and clear TS syntax which is also modern JS for the most part makes the overall code easier to reason about

creece · Answer

Yeah I am not like 100 against TS I just A Haven t used it and B Since A I don t really see the overall benefit compared to just writing JS may just have to try it out and see what it does for me

creece · Answer

I come from a C++ java background so i do like strongly typed languages

stalbert · Answer

yeah I found it interesting that you haven t tried TS given that I know you ve done Java as evidenced by the webstorm plugin you had

stalbert · Answer

TS does have an initial hurdle of newness to overcome but honestly a lot of TypeScript is just modern standardized javascript

stalbert · Answer

and I think you d be pleasantly surprised at the ES5 output of the TS compiler It s totally fine to read and reason about and not unlike what one would write by hand

stalbert · Answer

I also tried Scala js I maintain that Scala is a vastly superior language but it s JS output was huge and unreadable Scrapped that for NS development

creece · Answer

The plugin was out of a hatred for Eclipse so I broke out java skills but even that has changed so much lately I actually applied for a java job after I wrote that plugin and they told me I didn t know enough java i was like what I ve done this for years

creece · Answer

Really I just wanna write decent code that gets the job done I ve pretty much relented the idea of trying to make netsuite development fantastic

stalbert · Answer

I hear you there

stalbert · Answer

I just want to make it a bit less painful I don t do full time NetSuite anymore so it s not so bad

creece · Answer

thats fair thats all i do is netsuite dev for my real job so I try to make it as easy as possible

creece · Answer

I d rather just write 1 0 gt 2 0 and be done w it as a business

creece · Answer

retire in a few years and move on

stalbert · Answer

you may be onto something there Wonder if anyone has written any tools to help automate 1 0 gt 2 0 SS conversions

creece · Answer

Nah thats not really something thats possible because you have no idea how people have written their code and what they need

creece · Answer

its best to just go at it from a top down of what do you need what do you have and here s my suggestion to re write