Array grouping is a fairly common operation in any project. Until recently, we had to either write our own implementation or use third-party libraries when wanting to GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript. That will soon no longer be needed since a native implementation has been introduced in...
Node.js recently introduced a node: protocol for built-in modules. Built-in node modules can now be imported by prefixing the node: protocol prefix. So, what previously used to be can now be imported as Benefits It is currently supported:
ES Modules were introduced in ES2015. The import and export keywords by default are only applicable to JavaScript code. But there is a new proposal to allow it to be used for JSON modules in JavaScript. It is convenient to keep some configuration inside a JSON file and import that....
If you have user-generated content in your web application, chances are you have to deal with strings containing emojis. Since emojis are stored as Unicode, chances are that we want to detect these in our code and then render them accordingly. This article discusses how we can check if a...
CSS already has had conditionals in the form of @media queries or @support queries to selectively apply styling to the document. But there is a new proposal called when/else which takes it to a different level. At the time of writing this post, the when proposal for when has been...
Let us suppose we had an HTML element which had an ::after property assigned to it. We are going to be retrieving the content value of ::after or ::before of this element using JavaScript. For the following element: If we needed a way of retrieving content value of ::after in...
When a user has to select some text on a website, they have to drag and hold their mouse, or use double-click it. Sometimes, there are some samples that we know that the user is going to copy for sure. A use case for this can be code samples. The...
CSS overflows are an annoyance that keep showing up once in a while and are really hard to debug. Unwanted and unexpected scrollbars can lead to hours of inspecting the DOM to figure out what element is causing the issue and clicking random elements in the Chrome dev tools until...
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