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...
Remember the earlier versions of React that used to batch multiple state updates inside event handlers such as click or change to avoid multiple re-renders? React 18 has added automatic batching for all use cases to improve that performance optimization even further. With React 18, state updates in event handlers,...
ES2019 introduced two methods on the array prototype that would make life so much simpler for developers. These are flat() and flatmap() which help in flattening arrays. Array.prototype.flat() As the name suggests, the flat() method returns a new array with elements of the subarray flattened into it, that is the...
Array grouping is a fairly common operation in any project. Until recently, we had to either write our own implementation or use third-party libraries when wanting to GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript. That will soon no longer be needed since a native implementation has been introduced in...
Node.js recently introduced a node: protocol for built-in modules. Built-in node modules can now be imported by prefixing the node: protocol prefix. So, what previously used to be can now be imported as Benefits It is currently supported:
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