Do what every developer does: blame other people (JS Party #30)

Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Jerod Santo talk about their debugging methods, the cool things that JavaScript can do but isn’t talked about much, and their opinions on Git history.

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Featuring:

• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• visionmedia/debug

Uniquify an array

let foo = [1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5];
foo = [...new Set(foo)];

Destructuring assignment using regular expressions

const [, year, month, day ] = '2018-06-14'.match(/^(\d{1,4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})$/)

• How (and why!) to keep your Git commit history clean | GitLab

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