Font Awesome is a great resource to use various types of icons in your project including well-known social media icons and a lot more. It can be used with any front-end library. In this post, we are going to be using Font Awesome with React. Set up The first step...
I was recently trying to comment out some logic inside my JSX to add context about what a potentially complex logic. I then realized that comments in JSX are weird. So, how to write comments in React (JSX)? You cannot use HTML comments because they are parsed as DOM nodes:...
Chrome devtools has a collection of utilities that can be used to perform common debugging tasks and make our life easier. The $ sign shortcuts are one such set of utilities. Let us see how to debug better using these $ sign shortcuts in Chrome devtools. $_ Typing in $_ in...
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...
npm configurations allow us to do quite a lot of nifty things. One of them is to allow the project to set the Node.js version that needs to be used in order to run the project. This also provides us with the functionality to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js...
As dark themes have become popular across the web and across operating systems, we might want to check the user’s operating system preference when they visit our website. This way, we can initialize our website accordingly after detecting their dark mode preference. We can make use of the prefers-color-scheme media...
String.prototype.split() is a valuable method to split strings based on a delimiter. There often comes a scenario when we want to split a string and keep the separators in the result. The same JavaScript method provides a way to do so. Before we get into that, for people who are...
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