Did you know that you cannot use querySelectorAll() function on <template> elements? By that I mean that the following code will in fact not return any results: The same thing can be said about trying to use querySelectorAll() function on <template> elements: This even happens when calling either one of Read more…
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…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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:
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…
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…
One thing that you may need to use from time to time in Postgres is a function to be able to extract the value of a URL parameter from URLs stored in your DB. I wanted to be able to do this too so I wrote the following function: If 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…