Let’s start by pointing out the obvious. It is painful to work with dates. No matter the technology, it is just harder than it should be. Anyway… I stumbled across one of those annoying date related issues with axios. Just to be fair, the problem is not necessarily an axios problem, I just got to it when using axios. By default, axios will use JSON.stringify to convert an object to a json....
Ever filled up a form with a bunch of information and then accidentally navigated away and lost all data? Well, that’s frustrating. However, as a developer, it might be tricky to implement such functionality. This post is a practical guide to implementing is dirty checking using Vue, Vue Router and Typescript. TL;DR Code is available on GitHub. Expected behavior In a Vue app with Vue Router, when a user modifies data in a form and any navigation to another route occurs, the user should be notified and have the ability to cancel navigation....
You probably know how hard it is to purposefully cause a concurrency issue so you can test your code in these edge scenarios. I ran into this issue not too long ago and found that my favorite web service tester Postman doesn’t support sending multiple messages concurrently. I’m sure there are plenty of tools out there that do a great job, but for the simplest possible way you can use a combination of cURL and scripting....
I’m a fan of hotkeys and I use them for a lot of things. In fact, I believe that 80% of the commands I use in my IDEs (Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code mostly) I use via hotkeys. Nothing is better than CTRL + p in VS Code or CTRL + k + d in VS. Anyway, while a lot of users really don’t care about that, those that have data entry intensive use cases will probably appreciate some forethought in hotkeys in the apps they use....
I’ve been working on a vue project with typescript for almost a year now. Along the way, we found a few little things that I would like to share. Everything shown here is buried in vue’s documentation somewhere, you may need to dig a little, but it is all there. Note that all examples below use single file components and typescript 3. The project was created using vuecli 3. #1 typing $store and $refs in vue component When using the $store or $refs in a component, there is no typing available due to how vue wire the component together....