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…

The number of VSCode extensions you have installed is one of the main reasons why you might find the editor slow and power-hungry, as every new extension added increases the app’s memory and CPU usage. …

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…

Like a lot of other programming languages, JavaScript is constantly evolving. Every year, the language is made more powerful with new capabilities that let developers write more expressive and concise code. Let’s explore the most recent features added in ECMAScript 2022 (ES13), and see examples of their usage to understand…

Google now has at least 3 solid ways to track your search clicks and visits. Have you ever tried to copy a URL directly from Google Search?

I’m not one of those who go on screaming about how horrible if statements are — in many cases, they are simply the best choice out of all the ways to create control flow. Yet there are lots of situations where a different construct will do a noticeably better job…

“Don’t code for code’s sake…” “The code doesn’t matter — only programs do…” “Coding is not creative it’s logic…” Many programmers simply don’t see how coding can be creative or intrinsically interesting. And you know it’s not so easy to stay excited if your days revolve mostly around building apps…

Great news — OpenAI just released GPT-4 Turbo, an upgraded version of the GPT-4 model with a context window up to 128K tokens — more than 300 pages of text, and a fourfold increase in regular GPT-4’s most powerful 32K context model. The company made this known at their first…

Create React App 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. There are much faster and leaner alternatives available today. Why shouldn’t you use Create React App anymore? Create React App was great. Setting up React apps…