Function

assert (description, condition) public

Module:	@ember/debug

Defined in packages/@ember/debug/index.ts:131

Available since v1.0.0

import { assert } from '@ember/debug';

description

String

Describes the expectation. This will become the text of the Error thrown if the assertion fails.

condition

Any

Must be truthy for the assertion to pass. If falsy, an exception will be thrown.

Verify that a certain expectation is met, or throw a exception otherwise.

This is useful for communicating assumptions in the code to other human readers as well as catching bugs that accidentally violates these expectations.

Assertions are removed from production builds, so they can be freely added for documentation and debugging purposes without worries of incuring any performance penalty. However, because of that, they should not be used for checks that could reasonably fail during normal usage. Furthermore, care should be taken to avoid accidentally relying on side-effects produced from evaluating the condition itself, since the code will not run in production.

import { assert } from '@ember/debug';

// Test for truthiness
assert('Must pass a string', typeof str === 'string');

// Fail unconditionally
assert('This code path should never be run');