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July 05, 2020

Working With Currency in JavaScript

IEEE-754 Floating Points One client needed me to simply add two products together displaying the total for a new feature to "add both to cart"... not so simple of a task. When it comes to floating point values, JavaScript isn't so great at math. Just as as quick example: This is because of the IEEE…

3 min

Tags: js, currency, math

June 03, 2020

ESLint & Prettier for VS Code: Quick Setup

Requirement: Install Node.js In your Github repo, be sure in your ".gitignore" file to add . This will prevent git from pushing this giant file full of dependencies to your master. In your repo also add a new file called "package.json", I use the command ESLint Getting Started into your repo and…

1 min

Tags: vscode, tools, eslint, prettier

May 25, 2020

Battle Game In JavaScript: Part 1

The purpose of this project is to practice working with objects and how they interact with one another. Creating a small battle scenario helped me conceptualize what's possible. After taking a couple of Computer Science courses, I wanted to see if I could apply what I learned in C++ toward…

3 min

Tags: js, constructor, objects, filter

May 15, 2020

What is Shallow Comparison?

Use of Strict With Primitive Types (strings, numbers, booleans), using strict (triple) equals checks the type, then checks the value/memory. This works to ensure that one primitive is the same as another. However, this is not helpful for Complex Types (arrays, objects). This is because they are…

2 min

Tags: js, debugging

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