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How To Use Generics Properly To Infer Return Type of Function Correctly?

I've the following types type ItemDefaultType = object | null | string interface ItemToString<Item = ItemDefaultType> { (item: ItemDefaultType): string; } interface AutosuggestState<Item = ItemDefaultType> { highlightedIndex: number | null in...

Oct 31, 2019H

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Difference between different approaches for deferring write in Redis after sending back response from express server?

I've a use case where I've to store something in a redis database after the response has been sent. I'm trying to understand as much as possible, the difference between these three approaches — ( work = write in redis ) I can do the work in a promi...

Apr 3, 2019

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Explanation | Checking if all promises fail?

I'm reading Service Worker Offline Cookbook. Following is a piece of code, that checks if all promises have rejected — /* inside a promise */ /* reject if all promises reject */ promises.reduce((a, b) => a.catch(() => b)) .catch(() => reject(...

Mar 12, 2019C

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Browser Session Based Service Worker Cache Busting Possible?

TL;DR: In need of a custom caching strategy other than the default ones ( cache first, network first, network only, cache only, etc...) Is this possible? Use some session identifier ( like browser session cookies ) for a limited amount of time ( sa...

Mar 8, 2019

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What is that you work on in MetaBrainz as GSoC intern?

Jun 24, 2018

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What did you have to do in order to get into the prestigious Google Summer of Code Program? Could you tell in utter detail please?

Jun 24, 2018

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How to detect all fonts that a browser natively supports?

I'm trying to make a font selector component with font names dropdown. I want to be able to automatically show all the fonts that are natively supported by the browser the user would be using and show them in the dropdown. I googled, I couldn't find ...

Jun 6, 2018MH

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React / Other Framework Developers — Have You Used The Web Platform (Webcomponents, Polymer and the like) after jQuery? If no, why.

I saw the polymer related talks of google i/o 2018 and I got really interested to use the web platform, primarily because I had jumped straight onto React when I started my career, and never really tried using the web platform directly. TBH, I realis...

May 14, 2018R

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Did all you Javascript devs intuitively understand typing before using flow/typescript? If not how did you go about learning to type JS? Could you link the resource you used?

Every time I read code written in typescript / flow, even though after googling the type syntax of respective tool/language and then understanding why they were used like they were makes sense, it's very difficult for me to think how I could use them...

Apr 11, 2018J