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> Imagine a software tester finds this issue and logs a bug. Imagine the product manager hears about the bug. Imagine discussing this bug during sprint planning

> Imagine a software tester finds this issue and logs a bug. Imagine the product manager hears about the bug. Imagine discussing this bug during sprint planning, but then pleading your case to that same product manager: “This is an edge case and the number will still be validated on the back end.” And besides, you said this was MVP and this “bug” is actually standard behavior of the number input. Imagine losing that battle and having to fix it anyway. I felt sick reading that. We've all been there.

runarberg 4y ago
It is actually very common to intercept the submit event and do cleanup on the frontend, it is basically the default behavior for all modern frameworks. And if you do that, you can do nice things like submit a proper JSON (e.g. { "number": 42 } as opposed to { "number": "42" }), or use `inputElement.valueAsNumber` to let the browser handle all the oddities of typing a number in a localized way.