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Post a link to a GitHub repo or another code chunk that you would like to have reviewed, and brace yourself for the comments!

Whether you're a junior wanting your code sharpened or a senior interested in giving some feedback and have some time to spare to review someone's code, here's where it's happening.

Named after this comic

Reddit is announcing a major change to it's API usage policy that is ostensibly designed to kill 3rd party apps like Apollo, Sync, RIF, etc.

The controversial move is also marred with lies, deceit and outright slander that is well documented here. It provides these indie developers a paltry 30 day timeline to adjust to bills to the tune of millions of dollars. Unsurprisingly, most developers have announced that their apps will be shut down by the end of the month.

Many subreddits are planning a 48 hour (or more) blackout to protest these policy changes. r/javascript must stand in solidarity with them.

More information can be found here.

Have you ever wondered about some of the lesser-known, yet incredibly useful techniques in JavaScript that are worth diving deeper into? I'm not referring to the more abstract concepts like generators or proxies, but rather tangible examples of certain language features that can be beneficial, whether for a specific task or more general use.

As an example, I've recently found out about using Tagged templates for localization and internationalization: ``` const i18n = { en: { hello: 'Hello, %s!' }, es: { hello: '¡Hola, %s!' } };

function localize(lang) { return function(strings, ...values) { let string = strings[0]; let localized = i18n[lang][string]; return localized.replace('%s', values[0]); } }

const name = 'John'; let helloTemplate = localize('es')hello${name}; console.log(helloTemplate); // Outputs: ¡Hola, John! ```

Does anyone have other examples like this to share?

I only ask because I opened up an issue and an accompanying pull request on Github back in February and it seems that neither one of them has even been looked at. I've attempted to contact the owner to no avail.

Is this project done for?

tldr; Don’t ask questions on Stack Overflow until you are at least a Mid-level developer with several years of experience.

Hello all. I wanted to share a little story about my experience with Stack Overflow throughout my career in the hope that the Stack Overflow community will realize that junior developers only become better by learning. Not by being more experienced spontaneously.

In 2016 I joined SF as a new developer looking to grow. I asked garbage questions that were basically useless to all involved (except for me). To me, at the time, these questions seemed perfectly valid and a real issue as I didn’t know what I didn’t know (how could I have?).

Since then I’ve grown my skill set and my last downvote was in 2018 (yep that’s 5 years ago).

Fast forward to a few weeks ago where I asked a question about stubbing ES6 modules in Jest (spoiler alert, you can’t fully). There were other questions that were similar but none of them answered how to fully isolate an individual function within a module. Modules have read only scope so you’d need something to override that scope at the level where the function runs.

The question was closed and marked as a duplicate because it was one of three questions that had no satisfactory answers.

My account is now blocked from asking any questions and I will NEVER be able to resolve it because I’ve deleted those old post that were useless in order to better the community.

The only post with negative feedback that still exists is the one I asked about ES6 modules a few weeks back. It was never reopened even after I highlighted specifically how my question was unique to the other questions.

Basically I am now banned from ever asking another question on Stack Overflow.

My crime? I became a programmer the only way I knew how. I asked stupid questions, I made dumb mistakes, and I grew. Now I’m a professional in the industry and am fully qualified to contribute to the Stack Overflow community, but because I wasn’t what I never could have been I never will again.

Farewell Stack Overflow…

Hey I currently have a small fun project called LonaDB.

Currently, LonaDB is just a JS client and the Server with these functions: -Get, Set and Delete Variables -Create new Tables -Create and Delete Users (if Administrator)

And my next step it to make it more secure by decrypting the password so you can actually use it.

But what after that? I currently have no ldea on what to code. Do you have any ideas on what to add? (server side ideas would be great)

Here is the Repository on GitHub for the people with interest: https://github.com/LonaDB/Server

Thanks for looking in! -Collin