Overly complex function (OverlyComplexFunctionJS)
Reports a function with too many branching points in a function (too high cyclomatic complexity). Such functions may be confusing and hard to test.
Locating this inspection
- By ID
Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.
-Overlycomplexfunctionjs- Via Settings dialog
Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.
Use the field provided below to specify the maximum acceptable cyclomatic complexity for a function.
Inspection ID: CyclomaticComplexityJS
Inspection options
Here you can find the description of settings available for the Overly complex function (OverlyComplexFunctionJS) inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Function complexity limit
Option ID:
m_limitDefault value:
10
Suppressing Inspection
You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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By default bundled with: | CLion 2026.1, GoLand 2026.1, IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1, JetBrains Rider 2025.3, PhpStorm 2026.1, PyCharm 2026.1, Qodana for .NET 2025.3, Qodana for Go 2026.1, Qodana for JS 2026.1, Qodana for JVM 2026.1, Qodana for PHP 2026.1, Qodana for Ruby 2026.1, RubyMine 2026.1, WebStorm 2026.1 |