What is the convention in JSON for empty vs. null?

It is good programming practice to return an empty array [] if the expected return type is an array. This makes sure that the receiver of the json can treat the value as an array immediately without having to first check for null. It’s the same way with empty objects using open-closed braces {}. Strings, Booleans and integers … Read more

Loop inside React JSX

Think of it like you’re just calling JavaScript functions. You can’t use a for loop where the arguments to a function call would go: See how the function tbody is being passed a for loop as an argument – leading to a syntax error. But you can make an array, and then pass that in as an argument: You can basically … Read more

JavaScript replace/regex

You need to double escape any RegExp characters (once for the slash in the string and once for the regexp): Otherwise, it looks for the end of the line and ‘TESTONE’ (which it never finds). Personally, I’m not a big fan of building regexp’s using strings for this reason. The level of escaping that’s needed … Read more