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Vital Web Performance
I hate slow websites. They are annoying to use and frustrating to work on. But what does it mean to be “slow”? It used to be waiting for document load. Then waiting for page ready. But with so many asynchronous patterns in use today, how do...
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Remove the Search Input Clear(x) Icon
I really appreciate the amount of different
<input>elements we've received over the past decade. These elements don't just bring a new semantic advantage, but also provide UI helpers, which in many cases are useful. In a recent case, I found a UI element...
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5 Awesome JavaScript Promise Tricks
The Promise API changed the game in JavaScript. We went from abusing
setTimeouts and settling for synchronous operations to doing everything possible to leverage this new async API. Let's check out a handful of awesome Promise API tricks!Cancel a fetch RequestOne problem we...![Logical Assignment Operators]()
Logical Assignment Operators
I love JavaScript, it's my favorite programming language, but I love dipping into other languages because they offer a new perspective on coding paradigms. There've been syntax additions to JavaScript that I've seen I found interesting (think
??in optional chaining) and...![Match Emojis with Regular Expressions]()
Match Emojis with Regular Expressions
When experimenting with unicode property escapes, to identify accented letters in strings, it reminded me of a question I had a few years ago: what is the best way to identify and then replace emojis in a string? I first noticed this practice...
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Simple Node.js Proxy
When I wanted to refresh my React.js skills, I quickly moved to create a dashboard of cryptocurrencies, their prices, and and other aspects of digital value. Getting rolling with React.js is a breeze --
create-react-app {name}and you're off and running. Getting the API...![Match Accented Letters with Regular Expressions]()
Match Accented Letters with Regular Expressions
Regular expressions are used for a variety of tasks but the one I see most often is input validation. Names, dates, numbers...we tend to use regular expressions for everything, even when we probably shouldn't.The most common syntax for checking alphabetic characters is
A-zbut what if...Expanding the Future (of Dev Tooling) with AI
I'm writing to share some news that I'm genuinely excited about, not even just for me but for the rest of the developer community.Many of you know that I've been working with companies all over the world for nearly a decade, helping their developers learn JS...
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How to Earn Interest with Bitcoin
When I was young I remember looking at my bank book and seeing nice interest payments for cash I had in the bank. Fast forward to today and banks are giving essentially nothing for interest -- your money just sits there collecting dust. In an ideal...
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Promise.allSettled
The Promise object has many useful functions like
all,resolve,reject, andrace-- stuff we use all the time. One function that many don't know about isPromise.allSettled, a function that fires when all promises in an array are settled, regardless of whether...
