6 posts tagged with "javascript"

In Javascript, you sometimes may find yourself needing to assign an attribute to an object based off the value of another variable. There are currently two ways of doing this: What’s the old way? (Pre ES6) The old way that you used to do this was to make the object…

Sorting using sort() Lets say that you have an array of objects that you wanted to sort by: You can use the sort() method of the Array that uses a callback function. The function takes 2 parameters in the array (commonly called a and b) When the callback function…

When working with TypeScript, you’ll frequently encounter scenarios where you need to merge or enhance existing types to craft a new, specialized one. Fortunately, TypeScript makes this process straightforward and user-friendly. To extend a type in Typescript, you have…

When dealing with tag inputs from users, I find myself having to make sure they they don’t enter in any blank or empty tags. Then I realized that I needed to find out how to remove undesirable elements not only from the Php side, but also from the Javascript side as…

Here is something useful that I discovered in my programming for my personal websites. I needed to strip out the anchor portion of a link and leave the rest of the url intact. For example I wanted: http://jelaniharris.com/I-love-apple-pies#comments To look like: http…

Recently I was working on a few functions that I didn’t want to have activated immediately after hovered over a div. I neededthe functions to activate after a half a second of hovering by the user. To do this I created this this piece of code. Let’s go through line by…