Get the values from the “GET” parameters (JavaScript)

JavaScript itself has nothing built in for handling query string parameters. Code running in a (modern) browser you can use the URL object (which is part of the APIs provided by browsers to JS):  Run code snippetExpand snippet For older browsers (including Internet Explorer), you can use this polyfill or the code from the original version of this answer that predates URL: You … Read more

What is prevState in ReactJS? [duplicate]

prevState is a name that you have given to the argument passed to setState callback function. What it holds is the value of state before the setState was triggered by React; Since setState does batching, its sometimes important to know what the previous state was when you want to update the new state based on the previous state value. So … Read more

How do you round to 1 decimal place in Javascript?

Math.round(num * 10) / 10 works, here is an example… if you want it to have one decimal place, even when that would be a 0, then add… EDIT: Add round with precision function… Using this principle, for reference, here is a handy little round function that takes precision… … usage … … defaults to round … Read more

Getting “TypeError: failed to fetch” when the request hasn’t actually failed

The issue could be with the response you are receiving from back-end. If it was working fine on the server then the problem could be with the response headers. Check theĀ Access-Control-Allow-OriginĀ (ACAO) in the response headers. Usually react’s fetch API will throw fail to fetch even after receiving response when the response headers’ ACAO and the … Read more