Shortening a Javascript if-else structure

Question

The code I have is:

 var level = function (d) {
    if (value(d) > median + stdev) {
        return 1;
    } else if (value(d) > median) {
        return 2         


        

Answer 1

"nicer" way? No, not really.

Alternate way(s) - yes, plentiful.

One possibility is storing the condition and result in an array

var levelFunctions = [
  { func: function(d){ return value(d) > median + stdev; }, val:1},
  { func: function(d){ return value(d) > median ; }, val:2},
  { func: function(d){ return value(d) > median - stdev; }, val:3},
  { func: function(d){ return true; }, val:4}
];

Then just enumerating that list as part of the function

var level = function (d) {
    for(var i=0;i

A bit easy to extend than your original, but by [diety] its ugly as sin!