Tests for various challenges are too strict about whitespace around function arguments

The problem

In the “React and Redux: Moving Forward From Here” challenge, I tried the following code:

console.log( 'Now I know React and Redux!' );

However, this code did not pass the tests. But if I simply remove the spaces, it passes:

console.log('Now I know React and Redux!');

I think the tests for this challenge need to be less strict on spacing. Perhaps a partial minifier could be run on the code to remove excess whitespace within lines before making the test comparison?

This same kind of issue also affects the following challenges:

• “Data Visualization with D3: Add Axes to a Visualization”: spaces are not allowed around call method.

svg
      .append( 'g' )
      .attr(
        'transform',
        `translate(${padding}, 0)`
      )
      .call( yAxis );

• “JSON APIs and Ajax: Get JSON with the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest Method”: spaces not allowed around JSON.parse arguments.

const apiRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
  apiRequest.open( 'GET', '/json/cats.json', true );
  apiRequest.send();
  apiRequest.onload = function() {
    const json = JSON.parse( apiRequest.responseText );
    document.getElementsByClassName( 'message' )[0].innerHTML = JSON.stringify( json );
  };

Browser and OS info

• Browser Name: Firefox Developer Edition
• Browser Version: 66.0b5
• Operating System: Antergos Linux

[nikrb]

@RandellDawson yes I have to agree … got carried away trying to trim down the testString’s. I’ll have a think about a global stripWhiteSpace function.

[wmollenkopf]

I hope it was okay, but I went ahead and created a RegExp instead of a pure string compare for the assertion.