Tag: JavaScript

Been hot on a new [old] project recently and I’ve not only been coding my ass off, but delving into some territory that I haven’t delved into as of late. The latest is in terms of determining if a modifier key has been pressed in conjunction with another key press….

React Router makes it extremely easy to define routing in your React application, but out of the box doesn’t concern itself with which routes should require authentication and which ones should now. I’ve solved this problem in a past life, using React Router v4 and looking back at the code…

Programming languages can change pretty regularly, and I try to carve out some time periodically to catch up on the latest and greatest the languages I love have to offer. With that, recently I was poking around on JavaScript’s string prototype and came to realize that there were some string…

Recently I was faced with the need to remove an item from an array, by index in JavaScript and I came to realize it had been quite a while since I had to do something like that. My initial, and extremely incorrect thought was that I could just use delete…

Recently I was writing some code that needed to detect if a certain character was at the end of the string to determine if some additional logic should be executed. The reason for this was because the additional logic to run was pretty hefty and for pre-mature optimization’s sake, I…

Checking whether or not a string contains another string, or just a single character. It’s a been a pretty unavoidable sanity check in my programming career. It’s not quite a problem for the ages, but it comes up regularly and can be approached a few different ways. ES5 and prior…

Recently I was working with some data coming out of a Redis pipeline and I wanted to take the data and split it up into an array of X items per key. I was working with PHP, this wouldn’t have been a big deal, just use array_chunk and get on…

Time again for one of my holiday cop out posts 🙂 Here’s a couple of ways to calculate the number of days until Christmas: Vanilla JavaScript Math.floor((+new Date(‘2018-12-25’) – +new Date()) / 86400000) Using momentjs moment(‘2018-12-25’).diff(moment(), ‘days’) Merry Christmas!