Install these powerful VSCode extensions to significantly improve your productivity during web development. — Visual Studio Code is one of the most widely-used source code editors out there, with over 136k stars on GitHub. Its popularity comes about due to its lightness, flexibility, open-source nature, simplicity, and extensibility. Speaking of extensibility, VSCode has thousands of extensions you can install to ramp up your developer…

We look at several quick and concise one-liner solutions to various problems that arise frequently in JavaScript. — In programming, there are usually multiple ways to solve the same problem. These solutions can vary in different areas, such as the length, performance, algorithm used, readability, and so on. In this article, we’ll be looking at several quick and concise one-liner solutions to various problems that frequently arise in…

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You’ve heard of console.log() and probably use it all the time. It's very popular, and tools like Visual Studio Intellicode usually recommend it before any other console method when typing in an IDE:

Hey, guess what? There’s a brand new programming language for AI developers called Mojo! I know what you’re thinking — another language to learn from scratch. But hold on, here’s the good news: Mojo is designed as a superset of Python. So, if you’re already familiar with Python, learning Mojo…

CRA is gone. Yes, it’s no longer the recommended tool for starting React apps. Some of us were surprised, but many of us knew it was a long time coming. The React team has decided to shift their focus to more modern and lightweight tools and frameworks. CRA was a…

With the jspdf library, we can easily convert any HTML page or form to a PDF: For example: import { jsPDF } from 'jspdf'; const pdfContentEl = document.getElementById('pdf-content'); const doc = new jsPDF(); await doc.html(pdfContentEl.innerHTML).save('test.pdf'); PDF is a popular file format we use to present and share documents with a…

To get the length of a map in JavaScript, we use it’s size property, e.g., console.log(map.size). const map = new Map(); map.set('user1', 'John'); map.set('user2', 'Kate'); map.set('user3', 'Peter'); // 👇 Get length of map console.log(map.size); // 3 Map size, set(), and delete() methods A Map object's size property stores of key-value pairs in the object. As the…

A typical use case for nested ifs: you want to perform all sorts of checks on some data to make sure it’s valid before finally doing something useful with it. Don’t do this! : // JavaScript function sendMoney(account, amount) { if (account.balance > amount) { if (amount…