A few months ago I wrote a quick post showing how to parse JSONC (JSON with comments) files in JavaScript. Shortly thereafter I adapted the code to work in PHP as well: This function takes the same arguments that you can pass to the native json_decode() function. Besides removing JavaScript […]
There are a lot of online converters out there that will take XML file contents and turn it into JSON. I decided to make my own and then show how simply this can be done with modern JavaScript: How Does It Work? The code which makes this work is given […]
There are many websites that make it super easy to import node packages into your website. One of them is Unpkg.com. If you want to import a package into your web page or website you can try using the following: As you can see in the JSDoc annotation, this function […]
At times you may want to set a minimum height and/or a maximum height for an Lightning Web Component Datatable. The documentation may lead you to believe that you cannot accomplish this but with some CSS3 you definitely can. If you go to the LWC Datatable docs you will see […]
Did you know that you can pass a function as the second parameter to JSON.parse()? Doing this causes every key/value pair to be passed to this function for further processing. You can read all about how JSON.parse() and the reviver function works here on MDN’s site. Example Reviver We can […]
Last year I needed a way to be able to parse JSON with comments (also known as JSONC). With that in mind I wrote the following short solution which will essentially remove JavaScript-style comments and trailing commas from the specified JSONC string and then the native JSON.parse() function will parse […]
Every once in a while I just need to get the stack trace of an exception as a string so that I can log the error in a separate system. Here is a quick way to do that:
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 […]
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 […]
Recently I had to write a custom integration which would sync customers found in QuickBooks with accounts found in Salesforce. We have been using Python to write all of our custom integrations so I have been using python-quickbooks and simple-salesforce. One thing that we noticed when syncing the two datasources […]