If you only ever deal with English strings in your code, you can stop reading now. Unless you are curious and want to learn something new, then please stay. 😉 In languages like German, we have characters that don’t exist … Read more →
Before we get into some topics in the advent calendar, we need to learn about a browser feature. Therefore, I have changed the order of my planned topics on debugging a bit to have this one earlier. In some of … Read more →
If you implement some web application, where the indication of the current progress would improve the UX, a nice little progress bar can help. And there is an easy way to add one. When in the past, we would have … Read more →
I don’t know when I’ve started using Sass but. My first blog post on that topic dates back to 2012. There are many features I love Sass for, and one of them is nesting. What is nesting in Sass A … Read more →
Many programming languages have this. Instead of defining all parameters for a function, you can pass any number of parameters into a function and then work with them. Functions with static parameters Before we get into dynamic parameters, let us … Read more →
In the very first advent calendar blog post this year, I’ve shown you how to “Getting started with JavaScript debugging“. Today, I want to show some more advanced techniques you can use to debug your code. Different logging types In … Read more →
Many of us have seen and used them. In the WordPress Block Editor, they are available for things like the font size of several blocks. This is how it looks for the core/paragraph block: When you use the range selector, … Read more →
More than 9 years ago, I wrote a (German only) blog post about how to “improve JavaScript with scroll event handlers”. Back in the days, people would use a plugin like “WP-Smooth-Scroll” (it’s still around, but hasn’t been updated in … Read more →
You might now ask yourself: What?! That was also my first reaction, when I’ve heard about labeled statements. So what are they, and when can they be used? Are they goto statements? Many programming languages have goto statements. Some programming … Read more →
In the first debugging blog post, we’ve learned about the console.log() method and how it works to debug scalar types or arrays. But there is a nicer way to log arrays or objects in the browser. The console.table() function As … Read more →