Jamie Zawinski once posted this on a message board: “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.”. He wasn’t the first to use this quote, but his use of it seems to be the most famous. Jamie was lamenting…

There are several alternatives to IF statements in JavaScript. Today, I will be looking at a few of my favorites. These are very useful when working in React as there are limitations to what can be put in a component’s return statement. They are: Ternary Operator (? :) Short Circuit…

In my last blog: Avoid Magic Numbers in Writing Code | by Sean Shaughnessy | May, 2021 | Medium , I wrote about a number that you shouldn’t be using in you code. This blog, I have another number, or more accurately, a number format, to avoid: expressing money in…

Let’s say you wanted to write an algorithm for shuffling a deck of cards in JavaScript. You might start with something like this: for (let i = 0; i < 52; i++) { // … } Notice anything wrong? Someone reading your code may not know how many cards are…