CSS now includes a :has selector that allows us to apply styles on the basis of what is happening inside an element. Often referred to as a parent seletor, the :has() function allows us to achieve this and more. Let us take a look at this relative selector. It only...
If you are here, then you are getting an “invalid active developer path” error on running commands in the terminal after a MacOS update. To be exact, the error would be: Fortunately, it is easy to fix this error and get your Git/Pip/Homebrew etc. working again. Most of the time...
Every once in a while, you come across something and you think, how did I not know this earlier? valueAsNumber is that thing for me. Whenever we need the value of an HTMLInputElement, we go to e.target.value. But getting the value of an input element as a number can be done without...
Font Awesome is a great resource to use various types of icons in your project including well-known social media icons and a lot more. It can be used with any front-end library. In this post, we are going to be using Font Awesome with React. Set up The first step...
I was recently trying to comment out some logic inside my JSX to add context about what a potentially complex logic. I then realized that comments in JSX are weird. So, how to write comments in React (JSX)? You cannot use HTML comments because they are parsed as DOM nodes:...
One of the practices of clean code is to make it more readable. And a fairly common use case in code bases is conditionals. I recently came across a way of writing more readable JavaScript conditionals and thought of sharing it with everyone. Consider the following conditional: The mind takes...
Chrome devtools has a collection of utilities that can be used to perform common debugging tasks and make our life easier. The $ sign shortcuts are one such set of utilities. Let us see how to debug better using these $ sign shortcuts in Chrome devtools. $_ Typing in $_ in...
For as long as anyone can remember, deep copying in JavaScript was not a built-in feature and we had to resort to libraries or workarounds to create a deep copy of a JavaScript value. That has changed now. The platform now offers a built-in function that does deep copying for...
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