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There are two ways to dynamically add an element to the end of a JavaScript array. You can use the Array.prototype.push() method, or you can leverage the array’s “length” property to dynamically get the index of what would be the new element’s position. I have provided candidate pre-screening … [Read more...] about Two Ways to Dynamically Append an Element to a JavaScript Array

jQuery offers three Ajax calls that are simple and painless Although it is a good idea to understand Ajax in the context of native JavaScript, leveraging the power of JavaScript libraries for your Ajax calls is not a bad idea. Depending on the size and complexity of your application, it can often … [Read more...] about What’s the difference between jQuery.ajax(), jQuery.get() and jQuery.post()?

My favorite is using !!. It’s also the recommended method by Airbnb's JavaScript style guide 👍 Convert Values to Boolean String Number Falsy Values In JavaScript, there are 6 falsy values. If you convert any of these to a boolean, it will return false. Anything not on the … [Read more...] about 2 Ways to Convert Values to Boolean in JavaScript

As web applications become more complex, the desire to store user-specific information across different web pages increase. Users tend to interact with many different functionalities of a website. Their previous actions often dictate what they should see next. In other words, the user expects a … [Read more...] about Is Local Storage Persistent?

When creating an interactive experience for a user there are many different factors relating to the user’s browsers viewport that should be considered. How a user views the application will naturally dictate the quality of experience that he/she has. Situations commonly arise where … [Read more...] about How to Hide The Address Bar in a Progressive Web Application

As the capabilities of the browsers increase, local storage has remained a solid feature for storing non-pertinent information. Data that doesn’t need to be stored on a server tends to be saved into local storage. With multiple pieces of data, there are plenty of uses cases that require iterating … [Read more...] about How to Loop Through LocalStorage in JavaScript

If you have ever experienced the following error message using getElementById: Uncaught TypeError document.getElementbyid is not a function You will be glad to know that the fix is trivial. Pay attention to any lowercase letters in the method name. JavaScript is case-sensitive so … [Read more...] about How to fix: Uncaught TypeError document.getElementbyId is not a function

When it comes to replacing characters inside strings, there is a wide range of methods that can do this job. However, sometimes we want to specifically remove certain characters from the string. So, how can we remove brackets from a string in JavaScript? Brackets can be removed from a string in … [Read more...] about How to remove brackets from string in JavaScript