Pankaj Patel

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Ways to convert String to Number in JS

Jun 14, 20214 min read 41 views

Converting from one type to another (or simply called typecasting) is needed very frequently in any programming language. So is in JavaScript. Today we are going to take a look at some of the ways to Typecast Strings to Number. parseInt As the name s...

Today's npm package: jsdoc-to-markdown

Jun 13, 20212 min read 10 views

Today's npm package is jsdoc-to-markdown Documentation is as important as solving the problem. And whats better than jsdocs for JavaScript apps. The way you can define a simple JSDoc is as follows: // index.js /** * Function to generate the Square...

Today's npm package: memoizerific

Jun 12, 20212 min read 10 views

Today's npm package is memoizerific Many times in our JavaScript functions, we need to do some heavy lifting; like sorting 100s of tuples, formatting strings inside objects etc. And if there operations are similar but executed very often, it is good...

Today's npm package: child-process-ext

Jun 11, 20211 min read 8 views

Today's npm package is child-process-ext When creating CLI tools, you might wanna use other CLI tools and not have the luxury of npm package around those tools. In such cases, you would need to create a child process with specific CLI command and ge...

Today's npm package: cli-table3

Jun 10, 20211 min read 16 views

Today's npm package is cli-table3 For CLI tools, sometimes it is need to show some tabular information. CLI Table is to the rescue. Here's how you can use it to generate tables. In this example, we will generate table from file stats showing size, c...

Today's npm package: is-glob

Jun 9, 20211 min read 6 views

Today's npm package is is-glob While creating Node.js based CLIs which is working with Files and Directories; you might wanna work with Glob . And when working with Glob, you need to know when the passed argument is a glob or not. The package is-g...