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...
When it comes to debugging JavaScript in Chrome devtools, there are two different camps: the console.log fans and the debugger/breakpoint maximalist. I often switch between the two depending on what problem I am tackling. There is a third option that is kind of in the middle. Logpoints provide us with...
npm configurations allow us to do quite a lot of nifty things. One of them is to allow the project to set the Node.js version that needs to be used in order to run the project. This also provides us with the functionality to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js...
Zombie processes are usually a pain to figure out. More often than not, I end up googling about how to kill a process on a port using the command line. It can be done using the activity monitor as well, but that is a time-consuming process. There are ways of...
As dark themes have become popular across the web and across operating systems, we might want to check the user’s operating system preference when they visit our website. This way, we can initialize our website accordingly after detecting their dark mode preference. We can make use of the prefers-color-scheme media...
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