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Semantic Versioning with npm

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Semantic Versioning, often referred to as SemVer, is a crucial convention within the Node.

Understanding Peer Dependencies in Node Modules

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When working with Node.js and managing packages for your projects, you’re likely familiar with the dependencies and devDependencies sections in a package.

1. Introduction Welcome to our Programming Languages Series! In this series, we’ll explore various programming languages, understand their purposes, provide code examples, and discuss when to use each one.

React State Balancing: A Guide to State Management

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As React apps grow, managing shared and app-wide state can become challenging.

React + Node: Beginner's Guide to Full Stack Dev

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React excels at building fast, dynamic frontends. Node.js shines for server-side APIs and microservices.

Optimal React Patterns: Beginner's Guide

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As with any framework, React comes with its own set of best practices and optimal patterns.

Debugging React Apps: Beginner's Guide

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Bugs are inevitable in complex React applications. Thankfully, React provides great tools to squash bugs quickly.

Advanced React Patterns: Compound Components & More

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As React apps scale, you’ll want to structure components for greater reusability and composability.

React Animation Guide: Libraries and Techniques

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Animation brings interfaces to life. Thankfully, React has great open source libraries for animation.

Testing React Apps: Beginner's Guide to TDD

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Testing is crucial for ensuring React apps are stable and bug-free.

Data Fetched Fast - A Beginner's Guide to React Query

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Fetching data in React often means using stale state and complex caching logic.

Forms Simplified, A Beginner's Guide to Managing React Forms

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Forms are a common need for many React apps. However, managing form state and validation can be tricky.

Optimizing React Performance: Beginner's Guide

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As React apps grow, you may notice performance starting to lag - sluggish interactions, choppy animations, janky scrolling.

State Management 101 - A Beginner's Guide to React State

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State management is a crucial concept in React. State allows components to dynamically update UI based on data changes.

Accessible React Apps: Beginner's Guide to Accessibility

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Accessibility is an important consideration when building modern web apps. React provides useful tools to make accessible, inclusive products.

Mystery Boxes - A Beginner's Guide to React Fragments

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When returning multiple elements from a component’s render method, they must be wrapped in a single parent DOM node:

Unidirectional Data Flow in React: Beginner's Guide

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A key advantage of React is its unidirectional data flow. This makes the flow of data predictable, and helps avoid unexpected side effects from data changing unexpectedly.

Event Handling in React: Beginner's Guide

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Responding to user events is a crucial part of building interactive UIs.

Hooked on React - A Beginner's Guide to React Hooks

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When React was first released, class components were the standard way to build complex UIs.

Lifting State in React: Beginner's Guide

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As React apps grow in complexity, managing shared state between components can become tricky.

Looping in JSX with React Keys: Beginner's Guide

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Looping over arrays to render lists of elements is a common need in React apps.

Conditional Rendering in React

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In React apps, you’ll often need to render different UI components conditionally based on certain state.

Passing Data Between React Components with Props

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One of React’s core concepts is reusability through composable components. Components allow splitting complex UI into separate, reusable pieces.

How to Download a File in NodeJS without any Third Party Libraries

If you need to download a file in NodeJS without using any third party libraries, then you can do the following.

How to Execute a Shell Script in NodeJS

If you need to execute a shell script in NodeJS, then you can use the exec keyword.

How to Convert Milliseconds to Date in Javascript

If you need to convert Milliseconds to Date in Javascript, then you can do the following:

How to Convert String to Title Case in Javascript

If you need to convert a String to Title Case in Javascript, then you can do one of the following:

How to Deploy React App to S3 and CloudFront

If you would like to deploy a React App to AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront, then you can follow this guide.

[Solved] export ‘Switch’ (imported as ‘Switch’) was not found in ‘react-router-dom’

In react-router-dom v6, Switch is replaced by routes Routes. You need to update the import from:

How to get all checked checkboxes in Javascript

If you need to get all the checked checkboxes using Javascript, then you can do the following:

How to Create a Hashtag Generator in Javascript

If you want to create a hashtag generator in Javascript, then you can do the following:

How to Confirm before Leaving Page in Javascript

You can implement a function to be called before the user leaves a page with Javascript as follows:

How to Style an Element using Javascript

If you need to style an element using Javascript then you can use the style object to support all your CSS needs.

How to Wait 1 Second in Javascript

If you need your Javascript code to wait one (1) second (or more) while executing, then there are a couple of ways to achieve this.

How to use forEach method in Javascript

Arrays come with a useful forEach function that allows you to loop through the array.

How to Remove an Element from an Array in Javascript

If you need to remove an element from an array in Javascript, then you can use one of the following five (5) options:

How to get the Alphabet as Array in Javascript

If you need to get an array of alphabetical letters in Javascript then you can use one of the following:

How to get the Screen Width in Javascript

Javascript gives a few options to determine the screen width.

How to Reset Udemy Progress

If you need to redo a Udemy course and you would like to reset the course’s progress, then you can use the following Javascript snippet below.

How to Sort an Array of Objects by Property in Javascript

If you need to sort an array of objects by their property values using Javascript, then you don’t need to look further than the built-in sort functionality.

[Solved] npm ERR! could not determine executable to run

If you get the following message, then there’s a very easy fix:

[Solved] npm ERR! path node_modules/node-sass

If you get the following error and need a solution, then look no further!

How to Install Lodash through Yarn for React

You can install lodash through yarn as follows: Step 1 – Install Lodash to get the Library yarn add lodash Step 2 – Get the Typescript info yarn add --dev @types/lodash

How to update each dependency in package.json to the latest version

You have 2 options: Option 1 – Recommended (Using npx) npx npm-check-updates -u npm install Option 2 – Older way (Using npm globally) npm i -g npm-check-updates ncu -u npm install

How to Convert IPv4 to int32 in Javascript

The challenge Take the following IPv4 address: 128.32.10.1 This address has 4 octets where each octet is a single byte (or 8 bits).

How to Solve the Grouped by Commas Challenge in Javascript

The challenge Finish the solution so that it takes an input n (integer) and returns a string that is the decimal representation of the number grouped by commas after every 3 digits.

How to Create a Pyramid Array in Javascript

The challenge Write a function that when given a number >= 0, returns an Array of ascending length subarrays.

How to Create a Reverse Polish Notation Calculator in Javascript

The challenge Your job is to create a calculator which evaluates expressions in Reverse Polish notation.

How to declare a global variable in React?

If you need to declare a global variable in React, then you can do the following:

How to Find the Missing Term in an Arithmetic Progression in Javascript

The challenge An Arithmetic Progression is defined as one in which there is a constant difference between the consecutive terms of a given series of numbers.

How to Count Characters in a Javascript String

The challenge The main idea is to count all the occurring characters in a string.

How to Increment/Decrement a value in React/NextJS

Use the following code block to get started: function GetCount() { const [count, setCount] = useState(1); const incrementCounter = () => { setCount(count+1) } const decrementCounter = () => { if (count>1) setCount(count-1) } return <div className="_counterWrapper"> <span className="_dec" onClick={() => decrementCounter()}>-</span> <span className="_val">{count}</span> <span className="_inc" onClick={() => incrementCounter()}>+</span> </div> } Then in your HTML code, add it like this:

Fixing: ImmutableService requires getRowNodeId() callback to be implemented, your row data need IDs

If you have gotten this error before, then you have been trying to implement a rowData mapping onto Ag-Grid.

Automatically Resize All Columns to Fit in Ag-Grid

If you have an Ag-Grid, and want to automatically resize all the columns to fit the width of the viewport, you can use this hack.

How to Get All Rows in Ag-Grid

The easiest way to get the content of all rows’ data, back into a Javascript/Typescript array, is as follows.

How to Download a CSV file using Javascript

Ever wanted to generate a CSV (comma separated values) file directly from the browser, using Javascript?

How to Format Numbers by Prepending 0 to single-digit numbers in Javascript

If you have a single-digit number, and you need to format it to always have at-least two digits, then you can use the below function to solve your problem:

Validate Email Address in Javascript

Below is a nice little Javascript RegularExpression to validate email addresses.

Remove hash from window.location in Javascript

E.g. URL:<br>http://example.com/?option=1&task=2&listing_id=36&layout=4&table=5#some_hash_value_here So how would you get the current URL using Javascript?

How to use Google Analytics in AngularJS

It seems to be quite a popular question with not as many answers to hold the weight.

Comparing Java and Javascript

Perhaps the first thing that most people ask when they hear the names of these two programming languages are.

Convert URL String into a Javascript Object

Sometimes you find yourself with a String, something like and you want to repeatably access elements of it correctly.

How to fix a Javascript Uncaught ReferenceError

Sometimes you may get an error that looks something like this:

uncaught typeerror: $ is not a function

The dollar-sign ($) in Javascript has for many years now been associated with jQuery.

Another WTF Javascript Moment

Javascript is a powerful language, but sometimes it doesn’t always do what you expect it to.

How to Format a Number as a Currency in Javascript

There are quite a few ways to format a number as a currency value in Javascript.

How to Host an AngularJS site on AWS S3

AngularJS is a Javascript Framework that allows you to create dynamic front-end web applications easily.

Generate a random number between two numbers in JavaScript

If you need to generate a random number between two numbers in JavaScript, then you are in the right place!

How to tell if a String contains a Substring in Javascript

Javascript comes with some pretty good support for determining if a string contains a substring.

How to write Anonymous Functions in Javascript

There is a lot of power in Javascript syntax. One of those powerful things is that of Javascript Anonymous Functions.

What is Fizz Buzz?

Fizz buzz is a common programming interview question. The problem statement usually reads something like this:

How to safely parse JSON in Javascript

JSON stands for Javascript Object Notation and has become wildly popular to transport and store data between application, databases and more.

Check if an HTML Checkbox is checked using Javascript

While processing forms in web development, it’s a common requirement to be able to tell if a checkbox has been checked or not.

How to Merge Javascript Objects

A Javascript Object – now just called JSON – is a collection of values and properties stored as a map.

Introduction to NPM

What is NPM? NPM stands for Node Package Manager, and is the default way to extend your Node applications.

How to replace all occurrences of a string in Javascript

I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that in Javascript, there are really only two ways to do a proper search and replace.

Keep Google Map v3 centered when browser is resized

Using Google Maps V3 Javascript API you can keep the map centered to the browser’s window by using the following trick when resizing the window.

jQuery limit fields to alphanumeric characters only

I was trying to restrict a form’s field from only allowing the user to enter alphanumeric characters into it.

Disable Cache in jQuery

I usually run into this problem when dealing with good ol’ Internet Explorer (.

How to break out of an iframe

So someone’s trying to make their site better by opening a page on your site inside of their site using an iframe?

jQuery Colorbox not showing but background shows

I was using Colorbox for some lightbox type effects to show larger images when clicking on thumbnails, but for some reason the background was showing up but the pretty little box in the middle where the larger image is supposed to show never showed up, so this is how I made it finally appear after many failed attempts!

Get Value of Checkbox using jQuery

This one is quite an easy one, but a good one to mention non-the-less as it does definitely come in really handy.

Ternary Operation

If you do not know what the Ternary operator is, or do not use it while you are coding, let me be the first to tell you how much you are missing out!

IE6 PngFix in Javascript

As a web developer you will know just how much we all love hate Internet Explorer 6 – one of the most dreaded browsers and browser versions that still exists in the deep dark corners of the interwebs – and you will probably have figured out that it doesn’t play well with PNG images.