Code reviewMediumcr-g540

Subject Code reviewLevel Mid–Senior~18 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development, Technology

Question

Review this JavaScript retry helper that wraps a downstream call.

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Code to reviewjs

1async function withRetry(fn, attempts = 5) {2  for (let i = 0; i < attempts; i++) {3    try {4      return await fn();5    } catch (err) {6      await sleep(1000 * Math.pow(2, i));7    }8  }9}

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