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Node isConnected
Every so often I discover a property in JavaScript objects that I didn't know existed, oftentimes using another trick to accomplish the same functionality. One such property I just learned about was
isConnected, a node property that attached to a context (i.e.document).Here's how to...![Limit Promise Concurrency with pool]()
Limit Promise Concurrency with pool
Methods like
Promise.all,Promise.allSettled,Promise.race, and the rest are really excellent for managing multiple Promises, allowing for our apps to embrace async and performance. There are times, however, that limiting the number of concurrent operations may be useful, like rate limiting or simply not wanting...
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How Hacker News Crushed David Walsh Blog
Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy website, which slowed and eventually failed under the pressure. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog, and our metrics...
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Detect Changed Files with git
There are numerous reasons to want to know which files have been added or modified in a git repository, one of which is your text editor highlighting those files. Another use case is running tasks against only files which are presently changed, like lint or...
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cookieStore: Async Cookie API
One pattern in the JavaScript API world that web development veterans will notice is that we've been creating new methods to accomplish what older, grosser APIs once achieved.
XMLHttpRequestbecame thefetchAPI, some APIs like Battery became async, and there are dozens of other examples.-
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How to Prevent Pasting into an Input
Every once in a while I get to a website that doesn't allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it's something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from...
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Sports Data for Developers: SportdataAPI
Most of the side projects I consider starting revolve around sports, since I'm a huge sports fan. I spend my Saturdays watching soccer, Sundays spent watching soccer and NFL, and of course the mid-week Champions League and Europa League matches. One problem I've...
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39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla
In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell...
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Curate Custom Content with mediastack
I used to have a personal aggregator of sites I enjoyed but maintaining it was a nightmare. I needed to grab each site's RSS feed, categorize their contents, deal with errors and individual rate limits, etc. I had to tear the whole project down because it...
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How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned
The need for
position: stickywas around for years before it was implemented natively, and I can boast that I implemented it with JavaScript andscrollevents for ages. Eventually we gotposition: sticky, and it works well from a visual perspective, but I wondered how...
