We all know that ES6 introduced template literals via which we can write a string. But there's a catch if the template is a string variable - such as when you have multilingual error messages coming from a database. Is there another way...
I'm writing a JavaScript lib with TypeScript, using the excellent Vite for on-the-fly transpiling and packaging. This post is about the configuration that I use and specifically covers removal of comments.
I needed some niche automated testing for my keyboard and mouse handler for a canvas-focussed rich text editor control I'm working on. I have to mock a series of user actions and run multiple tests. I had to go DIY - here's what I made...
Users expect graphics apps to have a background - this gives them a sense of the shapes relationships and scale. This ingenious solution was proposed by @Kristofer[Borgware] and uses fillPatternImage to make an infinite background.
As the ClearScript faqtorial says ‘ClearScript is a library that allows you to add scripting to your .NET applications’. So – if you need to provide a scripting facility in your C# app then ClearScript might be an option. What can it do?
You can get the pixels color values from any part of your canvas. What you get is an array that doesn't have any obvious correlation to the width and height of the area you requested. What gives and how can you iterate through what you got?
A common use-case has rulers along the edges of the view to help users position shapes accurately. But how can we set the size of these rulers with unknown stage size? Here is a solution for optimised infinite rulers.