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How to debug better using $ sign shortcuts in Chrome devtools
Chrome devtools has a collection of utilities that can be used to perform common debugging tasks and make our life easier. The...
JavaScript
Deep copying in JavaScript using structuredClone
For as long as anyone can remember, deep copying in JavaScript was not a built-in feature and we had to resort to...
JavaScript
Chrome devtools: Using logpoints for logging messages directly
When it comes to debugging JavaScript in Chrome devtools, there are two different camps: the console.log fans and the debugger/breakpoint maximalist. I...
JavaScript
How to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js versions
npm configurations allow us to do quite a lot of nifty things. One of them is to allow the project to set...
JavaScript
Detecting dark mode preference using JavaScript
As dark themes have become popular across the web and across operating systems, we might want to check the user's operating system...
JavaScript
JavaScript: Split string and keep the separators
String.prototype.split() is a valuable method to split strings based on a delimiter. There often comes a scenario when we want to split...
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How to sort a Set in JavaScript
ES6 introduced the set data structure in JavaScript. But sets are not ordered abstract data structures. So there is no .sort() property...
Debugging CSS scroll using one simple style
I have been doing a lot of complicated front-end work off lately and that always brings me back to the class conundrum...
CSS :has a parent selector now
CSS now includes a :has selector that allows us to apply styles on the basis of what is happening inside an element....
How to fix “invalid active developer path” after MacOS update
If you are here, then you are getting an "invalid active developer path" error on running commands in the terminal after a...
Getting the value of an input element as a number without parseInt
Every once in a while, you come across something and you think, how did I not know this earlier? valueAsNumber is that thing...
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