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Overly complex boolean expression

Reports a boolean expression with too many terms. Such expressions may be confusing and bug-prone.

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.

OverlyComplexBooleanExpressionJS
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.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JavaScript and TypeScript | Potentially confusing code constructs

Use the field below to specify the maximum number of terms allowed in an arithmetic expression.

Inspection ID: OverlyComplexBooleanExpressionJS

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Overly complex boolean expression inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Maximum number of terms

Option ID:

m_limit

Default value:

3

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:

//noinspection OverlyComplexBooleanExpressionJS

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025