The State Changers meeting was focused on discussing the functionality of Xano and the use of different coding conditionals. One of the State Changers exhibited an optimized function created based on past discussions. They wanted to understand the difference between using set conditions and regular conditionals.
The primary question revolved around better decision-making: when to use set conditionals versus regular conditionals to avoid complex debugging. Another State Changer suggested favoring regular conditionals for major logical problems. They explained that regular conditionals expose more logic, enabling the developers to better understand how the entire code flows, whereas set conditionals could conceal the logic, making the underlying operations less comprehensible. For minor or quick decisions, set conditionals were proposed as the preferred choice. The explanation wrapped up with an analogy involving Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, comparing each layer of notes (set conditional logic) revealing the full picture only when all are reviewed. This contrasted with the more transparent approach of using regular conditionals that allow viewing of the 'whole picture' at once. In terms of tool usage, the central platform discussed was Xano; no other tools from the list were explicitly mentioned in this meeting.
(Source: Office Hours 8/18 )
