A common operation in many programming languages is to check if a string contains another string. While it's a simple and common task, the method names often differ between programming languages. For example, here is a small sample of the methods used to achieve this in various languages:
String.NPM, or the Node Package Manager, is a powerful tool that allows you to easily manage dependencies, run scripts, and organize project metadata. It's main purpose, however is to help you download and install Node packages from its repository to your project.
Downloading and installing a package is done using
For much of JavaScript's life, it was a browser-only programming language and could not run on the server-side like it can now. Because of this, JS has a lot of built-in functions that are specific to browser-side functions, like encoding strings for use in URLs. Some of the most commonly
Like many other popular languages, JavaScript conveniently comes with a built-in method for sorting arrays. While the end result is the same, the various JavaScript engines implement this method using different sort algorithms:
Git is a great tool for tracking all of the files in a project, whether you have only a few to track or thousands. But just because a file exists in your project doesn't mean you automatically want to keep track of it and its changes over the lifetime of
In this brief article we'll be going over how to extract information from a POST body in Express.js. The HTTP protocol provides a number of ways to pass information from a client to a server, with POST bodies being the most flexible and most commonly used method to
In last few years YAML, which stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language, has become very popular for use in storing data in a serialized manner, typically configuration files. Since YAML essentially is a data format, the YAML specification, is fairly brief. Thus, the only functionality required of YAML libraries
In computer science and electronics, there are quite a few ways to represent data, often called encoding schemes. Each has its own purpose, advantages, and disadvantages. In this short article we'll take a look at one-hot encoding and see what it is, how it compares to other similar schemes, and
