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...
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...
For as long as anyone can remember, deep copying in JavaScript was not a built-in feature and we had to resort to libraries or workarounds to create a deep copy of a JavaScript value. That has changed now. The platform now offers a built-in function that does deep copying for...
When it comes to debugging JavaScript in Chrome devtools, there are two different camps: the console.log fans and the debugger/breakpoint maximalist. I often switch between the two depending on what problem I am tackling. There is a third option that is kind of in the middle. Logpoints provide us with...
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