Overview When I started learning JS, I learned the language by always having to write out my functions using the function keyword.

Writing Cleaner JS Code — Introduction I have been writing my recent blog posts to reflect the ways in which I am trying to clean up and make my JS code more readable. One of those ways I want to talk about in this blog post is implementing “strict mode” into your code. Strict mode in…

Introduction In my last blog post, I wrote about using switch statements when I don't need complicated if-else statements. It makes my code easier to read and overall just easier to manage. In keeping up with trying to clean up my conditional statements, I have been implementing more ternary operations into…

Introduction Something I am trying to get in the habit of using when I do not need complicated if-else statements are switch statements. Switch statements are great for comparing multiple options such as in the case of checking if a string matches a certain word or number. One example that comes…

Introduction I ran into a problem while doing a project on trying to convert currency. It wasn't the issue of doing the conversion, but what if I wanted the numbers to be separated by commas or periods? In the US, for the price of five thousand dollars, it is common to…

How matchAll is Compare and Contrast’s match — While I take a break from my RegEx series, I wanted to write an article that was still related to regular expressions. I recently learned about the .matchAll() method, which I had not used until this past week. I had mentioned in this article how to match a pattern and…

The pipe symbol and capture groups in regular expressions. — Introduction Alternate characters in regular expressions can be very useful in addition to the many ways I have previously shown you in this series to match patterns. I’ll first start with the | pipe symbol which works very much the same way as it does in our conditional statements, functioning as…

Introduction One thing I like using regular expression for is when I need to match a pattern that is at the beginning or end of a string. In this post, I will quickly show you how to do that! Matching the Beginning of A String To start with matching the start of the string, we will use…

Wildcard, Zero or More Repetition & Optional Character — Introduction This is the final installment of my special characters post within my regular expressions series. I will mention in this post, the wildcard character, optional character, and the zero or more repetitions character. Let’s start with the optional character as that one is my favorite. I will be using regex101.com…