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Fixing “error: cannot find module semver” error in Node.js

Fixing “error: cannot find module semver” error in Node.js

  • October 19, 2023

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...

Fix “Error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupportedFixing” in Node.js

Fix “Error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupportedFixing” in Node.js

  • October 17, 2023

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...

How to sort a Set in JavaScript

How to sort a Set in JavaScript

  • November 26, 2022

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...

How to write comments in React (JSX)?

How to write comments in React (JSX)?

  • October 15, 2022

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:...

How to write more readable JavaScript conditionals

How to write more readable JavaScript conditionals

  • October 4, 2022

One of the practices of clean code is to make it more readable. And a fairly common use case in code bases is conditionals. I recently came across a way of writing more readable JavaScript conditionals and thought of sharing it with everyone. Consider the following conditional: The mind takes...