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JavaScript Beginner

Stop Parsing Query Strings by Hand

Splitting location.search on & and = is a bug farm: encoding, arrays and empty values all break it. URLSearchParams and the URL API handle every edge case and read better.

Mar 5, 2024 2 min 1,804

JavaScript Beginner

console.log Is the Least Interesting Thing About the Console

console.table, console.groupCollapsed, console.time and a few DevTools-only helpers like $0 and copy() will change how you debug. Most of them are one keystroke away and almost nobody uses them.

Mar 1, 2024 2 min 2,612

JavaScript Beginner

Yes, JavaScript Has Labels (and They Fix Nested Loop Escapes)

Breaking out of two loops at once usually means ugly flag variables or refactoring into functions. JavaScript has had a cleaner answer since day one: labeled statements.

Feb 24, 2024 2 min 1,818

JavaScript Beginner

The Third Argument of addEventListener You've Been Ignoring

once, passive and capture change how listeners behave in ways that delete cleanup code and fix scroll jank. Most developers never touch them.

Feb 15, 2024 2 min 1,811

JavaScript Intermediate

Why Your Analytics Miss Closing Tabs (and How sendBeacon Fixes It)

fetch() calls fired when a user closes the tab often never leave the browser. navigator.sendBeacon() exists precisely for this moment, and it is a one-line change.

Feb 5, 2024 2 min 4,448

JavaScript Beginner

structuredClone() Finally Kills the JSON.parse(JSON.stringify()) Hack

The old JSON round-trip for deep copies silently destroys Dates, Maps, Sets and circular references. structuredClone() handles all of them, and it is built into every modern browser.

Jan 17, 2024 2 min 2,773

JavaScript Intermediate

One AbortController Can Tear Down All Your Event Listeners

AbortController is not just for fetch(). Pass its signal to addEventListener and you can remove dozens of listeners with a single abort() call - no more keeping references to bound functions.

Jan 13, 2024 2 min 980

JavaScript Beginner

Object.groupBy() Ends a Decade of reduce() Boilerplate

Grouping an array of objects used to mean writing the same reduce() dance in every project. JavaScript finally does it natively, and the syntax is one line.

Jan 9, 2024 2 min 3,729