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Software development is inherently full of challenges. This ranges from architecting your software, maintaining it, fixing bugs, deploying, and the list goes on. When starting out, you'd think that the easy part would be to share you code with others. After all, they're just text files, right? This may not...
Scott Robinson
As many programmers have found out the hard way, adding documentation is extremely important in being able to easily make modifications to your code, fix issues, pass off to others, etc. Just because your code makes sense now doesn't mean it'll make sense to you in 6 months (or even...
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: Java: String....
NPM, or the Node Package Manager, is a powerful tool that allows you to easily manage dependencies, run scripts, and organize project metadata. Its 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: V8: Quicksort or Insertion Sort (for smaller arrays) Firefox: Merge sort Safari: Quicksort, Merge Sort, or Selection...
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 send...
In the 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...
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