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Unnecessary 'return' statement

Reports an unnecessary return statement, that is, a return statement that returns no value and occurs just before the function would have "fallen through" the bottom. These statements may be safely removed.

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.

UnnecessaryReturnStatementJS
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 | Control flow issues

Inspection ID: UnnecessaryReturnJS

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 UnnecessaryReturnStatementJS

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