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...
String.prototype.split() is a valuable method to split strings based on a delimiter. There often comes a scenario when we want to split a string and keep the separators in the result. The same JavaScript method provides a way to do so. Before we get into that, for people who are...
The console object in JavaScript has a lot more useful functions than the most frequently used console.log method. Debugging errors and finding execution flow can be a lot easier by making use of the console.trace method. It allows us to print the current stack trace where the method was called....
Whenever we install a particular package, it is common to come across a problem with a dependency’s dependency. With the release of npm 8.3, an overrides attribute has been added to solve this problem and allow overriding of nested dependencies in NPM. The problem Let us say your project depends...
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