In JavaScript you can create a function by using the Function constructor: The above code produces a sum() function which takes 1 or more arguments and returns the sum of them all added together. You can check out the following to see this in action: What About AsyncFunction()? You may 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…
If you have used regular expressions in JavaScript before you probably know that you can match any non-line-terminating character with just the dot (/./). Of course, you may also want to match absolutely any character in which case you can use any of the following: Most Common: /[\S\s]/ This is Read more…
There are various ways to convert a string or a floating point number to an integer in JavaScript, but not all of them may suit your needs. In this post we will examine four different ways and then we will see which is the best in all cases. Solution #1: Read more…
One simple function that is on the roster to be released in EcmaScript 6 is String.prototype.repeat. The following can be used to define it in browsers which don’t currently have it defined natively: Here are some examples of using this function (modified from the originals found on MDN): There is Read more…
One function I didn’t think would be doable in most browsers was the Math.sign. My main worry was that on the MDN page it specifies a difference between negative zero and positive zero. After doing some research I found this page which helped me realize there is a way to Read more…
A function that is proposed to be added to EcmaScript 6 is Array.of(). This function will be used to create an array of the passed parameters. Since this function is available in some browsers but not in all, here is a block of code which when executed will define it Read more…
Many know that JavaScript features vary from browser to browser. In the case of Firefox, there are many new features that have been proposed in EcmaScript 6. One of them is Math.hypot. This function adds up the squares of each argument passed and returns the square-root of that sum. In Read more…