It is often handy to create downloadable content on the fly using JavaScript. Sometimes you may want to do so while also encoding the contents as base64. That is where the btoa() function comes in handy. Here is an example of doing just that: As you can see by clicking Read more…
There have been so many times when I wanted to have a datetime show in UTC. I am not talking about simply looking at the time and acting as if it is in UTC. For example let’s say that I want to express the current time in UTC. This is Read more…
On a rare occasion you may need to convert a column name from Excel or Google Sheets to a number. For example you may be seeing references to a random column such as D, G, BV, etc. but you don’t know how to represent it as a number. Instead of Read more…
Sometimes you may want to know if the DOM is ready to be manipulated. Most of the time you want to run some code only after the DOM is ready to be modified. For that reason for years we used jQuery’s ready() function or some equivalent. Now many have moved Read more…
Let’s say that you want the following JavaScript to run directly in a WordPress post: To execute that you can write the following into your post: The resulting of running the above in a WordPress post is this: As you may have noticed, since I am using document.write(…) to write Read more…
Have you ever wanted to get the contents of a GitHub file via JavaScript? If so I wrote the following function which gives you the ability to get the contents of a file or of a directory: Here is an example of using the above function: And here is another Read more…
Recently I have been writing plugins for Grafana and had a desire to make a panel that would give the user the ability to use the data from the query within HTML with AngularJS syntax. I have not come up with a good solution for using AngularJS to easily parse Read more…
Making certain JavaScript UI solutions work with Vue can be a bit of a hassle at times especially if you are new to Vue. Ace editor, for example, is a great solution for developer that want to add a syntax highlighting textbox to their site but right out of the Read more…
Recently I added toBase() to YourJS. The purpose of this function is to make a straight-forward way to convert numbers to a base (from 2 to 36). Of course you can easily use native JavaScript by using Number.prototype.toString(), but the beauty of this function is that it also lets us Read more…
One of the things I understand but dont really like about the range(), which is available in utility libraries such as lodash and YourJS, is that it produces an array of numbers ranging from the starting number to the ending number but not including the ending number. Let’s say for Read more…