I know this code works as I use it quite a bit but I was wondering if there is a more elegant way of writing it ? if (app.activeDocument.activeLayers[0].kind !== "curves") { return; } else { //run this bit of code }

[image] How do I use Constants in uxp? UXP Plugin API import {constants} from "photoshop" // OR // const constants = require("photoshop").constants console.log(constants.LayerKind.TEXT)

Depends on that bit of code you want to run Eg. 1 if (app.activeDocument.activeLayers[0].kind === "curves") { //run this bit of code } Eg. 2 app.activeDocument.activeLayers[0].kind === "curves" && someSingleCall() Also you might want to check if you have active document and layer app.active…

How would you best use Constants

@IanBarber , is my answer about constants really a solution to your original question about if/else? :slight_smile: It’s just an advice to replace strings with constants, which doesn’t have much to do with if/else

Its helps me become more efficient with coding which is important to me

I think the if/else statement is fine as is. However, if you only need to run code if a condition is met and not run code if it isn’t met then just using if without else is easiest.

I personally prefer this style: function something(layer){ if (layer.kind !== "curves") { return;} layer.doAwesomeThing(); // more code here } And I do this because I want to have easily readable code. Instead of nesting several if statements inside each other and having deeply nested cod…

Totally agree with @Jarda here. That’s why I gave couple of examples. It also depends where that if() is and what’s the context. As Jarda, in a function I would also use an early return

Something else I noticed in the original sample – you might want to be more descriptive wrt what you’re doing. I might do this: const firstActiveLayer = app.activeDocument.activeLayers[0]; if (firstActiveLayer.kind !== constants.LayerKind.CURVES) return; Which you use may also depend on context – …

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