🧹 Code Quality Improvements and Documentation
What's Changed
🔧 Code Quality Improvements
- Removed dead code paths - Cleaned up non-functional case statements that were identified during code review
- Removed empty case statements in
parseIdInfo()function - Removed dead code for Peru (PE) validator (always returned false with incorrect country code)
- Removed dead code for Tunisia (TN) validator (always returned false with incorrect country code)
- Removed incomplete implementation comments that provided no actionable value
- Removed empty case statements in
📚 Documentation
- Added CHANGELOG.md - Following Keep a Changelog format
- Documents all releases (v1.0.0, v1.0.1, and future versions)
- Includes issue and PR references for traceability
- Follows Semantic Versioning conventions
- Added CHANGELOG-MAINTENANCE.md - Comprehensive guide for contributors
- When and how to update the CHANGELOG
- Category guidelines and examples
- Release process documentation
✨ Improvements
- Better code maintainability - Reduced main dispatcher file complexity
- Clearer codebase - Removed confusing placeholder code
- Improved developer experience - Clear documentation for maintaining changelog
Installation
npm install idnumbers@1.1.0Migration from v1.0.1
This is a minor release with internal improvements:
- ✅ No breaking changes
- ✅ 100% backward compatible with v1.0.1
- ✅ No API changes - All existing functionality works exactly the same
- ℹ️ Peru and Tunisia were never supported - Dead code removal has no functional impact
Test Results
Test Suites: 6 passed, 6 total
Tests: 402 passed, 402 total
Time: ~2.5s
All quality checks passed:
- ✅ TypeScript compilation
- ✅ ESLint checks
- ✅ Prettier formatting
- ✅ All tests passing
What's Next
Focus areas for upcoming releases:
- Additional country support
- Enhanced parsing functions for existing countries
- Improved test coverage for specific validators
- Community contributions welcome!
Contributors
Thank you to all contributors who helped improve this release!
Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.1.0