Bad Abstractions Could Be Ruining Your Code

Why the ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself’ principle might be doing more harm than good

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Let’s imagine we’re working in a very large codebase. Can you spot an issue in the following code?

const icons = {
  delete: getIconPath("delete"),
  edit: getIconPath("edit"),
  save: getIconPath("save"),
};