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insertAdjacent* family of DOM methods

This is more of an appreciation post for how useful the family of helpers is as opposed to doing a full coverage on them. To be specific…

ARGV in electron render process

Reading ARGV in electron is as simple as parsing the array from node, as long as reading the CLI arguments will be done only inside the…

Dynamically Load JavaScript with webpack

I feel like dynamically loading modules with webpack’s code splitting was discussed everywhere and everyone is doing it at this…

ldd utility

While playing with a binary, which happened to be , I discovered that I can’t run it, for a very misterious reason: Obviously that means…

Trick with JSON in JavaScript

Loved this writeup by Eduardo Bouças on custom JSON serializers/de-serializers. Little did I know that has a third argument (it comes…

Change node tagName

Building up on the previous discovery about copying all node’s attributes , I stumbled upon the need of having to rename the tag name of a…

Vim leader key

Disclaimer: This is by no means an introduction to what the leader key in vim is. There are a lot more exhaustive resources out on the…

Cached fetch()

The is becoming de-facto standard from performing HTTP requests in browsers, being very widely used in place of the old XHR objects…

Copy attributes from an element

Just discovered a nice way of copying all the html attributes from one DOM element to another, figured I’d write this trick down for keeping…

Nullify transforms in Node.getBoundingClientRect()

There exists a very neat DOM API called that allows someone to query a couple of crucial metrics for an element on the page, regarding its…

Primer into NodeJS Native Modules

Note: This article does not cover anything concerning WASM standard. Here is discussed only the old-fashioned C++ API for building Node.js…

Vue conditional event binding

Disclaimer: this is a short elaboration on this StackOverflow answer . There’s no way I could imagine a component running in a modern app…

Vue computed getters and setters

I figured out I’d post a short note about a feature I find very useful with Vue computed properties. Have you ever been in a situation where…