Sometimes you want to give the users the ability to download a part of the web application as an image. In that case, you want a way to convert a React component to an image. And it can be straightforward by using a third-party NPM package called html2canvas. Let us...
I was recently trying to use a later version of Node on Repl.it. I wanted to use a package that supported ES Modules, and the default version did not have support for it. So I wanted to use the latest node version in Repl.it. And found that there was no...
Developers are probably the laziest people on the planet. And of all the things, copy-paste is our favorite keyboard shortcut. But what is better than hitting ctrl + c? Having a button do the copying for you! And that is now possible using an asynchronous version of the clipboard API...
Ordered lists have been an important part of web design for quite a while now. If we needed more control over the appearance of numbers, we had to add more HTML and/or JavaScript to do so until now. Counters in CSS save us much of that trouble. Challenges with ol...
There are two ways to remove a property from a JavaScript object: one is the mutable way of doing it by using the delete operator. And the second one is the immutable way of doing it by using object restructuring. Let us go through each of these: 1. The delete...
Over the past few months, I found a new use of the pictures that I have clicked while hiking. I started using them as Zoom virtual backgrounds. If you are anything like me and take a lot of pictures, it can be hard to decide which one looks good. And...
We are all used to using the script tag to load external JavaScript files in our HTML. Traditionally, the only workaround for having the scripts load after the HTML has been loaded was to move the script tags towards the end of the body. But JavaScript has come a long...
NFC or Near Field Communication is a short-range wireless technology that allows devices at a distance of less than 10cm to communicate. It is mostly useful when interacting with NFC tags. Web NFC became a thing very recently with Google announcing support for it in Chrome for Android. It is...
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