When installing a package using npm, you might encounter the “error: cannot find module semver” error. The error is caused because of a corrupted package-lock.json or yarn.lock. The most common reason for this is a change in the node version. Fixing “error: cannot find module semver” The fix is a...
Node 17 introduced OpenSSL v3.0, which brought in some breaking changes, and the “Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported” is a result of one such change. It can be solved by passing in a “–openssl-legacy-provider” flag when running the application. Setting the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable We can set the environment variable that...
I recently ran into the “node: –openssl-legacy-provider is not allowed in node_options” error while working with Node 17. It occurs when the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable is set with the value –openssl-legacy-provider. I had set that value for another project I tried recently, which conflicted with this project. Fixing the “node:...
I recently was working with a third-party library. I ran into the error “Uncaught SyntaxError: cannot use import statement outside a module” when I tried to import a function from the package. Let us look into why it occurred and how I fixed it. Why is this happening? The error...
ES6 introduced the set data structure in JavaScript. But sets are not ordered abstract data structures. So there is no .sort() property available on them. To sort a Set in JavaScript, we need to convert it into an array first. Since arrays are sortable, we will then sort them, and...
I have been doing a lot of complicated front-end work off lately and that always brings me back to the class conundrum of which element was adding a horizontal/vertical scroll to my page/elements. Debugging CSS scroll is a pain that I have felt too many times now and I always...
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...
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...
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