Do Repeated string literals in the JavaSript codebase increase the final file size? Yes, they do. Does it matter? Not for the backend applications, but for frontend applications – and anything that contributes towards them – it does. For example, npm packages and directly loaded scripts, server-side rendered web applications, and SPAs such as Angular, React, and Vue.
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Markdown spec outlines markers, such as the asterisk (*), underscore (_), and double tilde (~~), for bold, italic and strikethrough, (or otherwise known as strong, emphasis, and delete), but requires these markers to wrap the text content on left and right without any whitespace(s). Any space on either side makes the markers appear as is instead of valid HTML tags after parsing/translation.
This post discusses SDK, JavaScript/Typescript SDK, its types, benefits, and drawbacks.
[Read More]Instead of writing our own logic to determine if the given string is of a particular case or not, we can write a helper method that acts as a wrapper, in which we compare the original string with the one returned by lodash method, and return true or false. The wrapper is a good way to pass on the responsibility of correct logic to lodash, a thoroughly tested library.
[Read More]For a deeply nested object or array of objects, we might want to replace all the keys in some way, such as modifying their case (camel case, snake case, etc.) or adding an underscore at the start of each key or on both sides. Or we may like to change the keys in any other way.
[Read More]As I have shown in a previous post, we can find the country of the user on the browser with JavaScript only. Using this information, you can restrict your site content for users belonging to specific countries.
[Read More]With the help of the browser’s LocalStorage, we can keep track of the number of visits of a user on the website or a particular webpage. Based on this data, customized alerts, messages or information can be shown to the user.
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