Functional vs Object Oriented Approach for UI codes

Question

I have the following snippets. which formats error messages based on a map. I can do it as a simple function call the function for transforming the error. or create a class and handle it in that way.

Functional doesn't require a an object instantiation and the message are exposed so that can imported in test to verify

Object Oriented will more structure but should be instantiated every time its accessed.

Functional

error_handler.js

export const messages = {
 500: 'Unexpected Error Occurred'
 400: 'Bad Request'
}

function transformError(error) {
 const message = messages[error.statusCode]
 return new Error(message)
}

error_handler.spec.js

it('should work for 400',() => {
  const error  = transformError({ statusCode :400 })
  expect(error.message).toEqual(messages[400]);
})

call().catch(transformError)

Object Oriented

class FormattedError {
 constructor(error){
   const messages = {
     500: 'Unexpected Error Occurred'
     400: 'Bad Request'
   }

   return new Error(messages[error.statusCode]);
 }
}

```

```
call().catch(e => new FormattedError(e))
```

```
it('should work for 400',() => {
  const error  = transformError({ statusCode :400 })
  expect(error.message).not.toBe(null)
})
```


What should be the ideal approach consider this is for UI 

Answer 1

Object oriented doesn't really makes sense to me here. That FormattedError class doesn't even represent anything, just transforming error constructor parameter to another class.

Also you are calling constructor, that then returns instance of something else? I don't know javascript that much so maybe it's some unknown construct to me, but that looks like something terribly wrong.

Edit:

I see no relevance to code being UI code or not.