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What code snippets do you use?

Itachi Uchiha on September 24, 2018

Hi. Sometimes, we create code snippets to help us. In a project, I needed to create an element and its attributes should have been set. I wasn't us...
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Albert Alises •

Specially for testing with Puppeteer I have some common functions that I reuse in most of the tests like login() or navigateToProject() or util functions to get properties from selectors, etc...

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Lavinia •

This is silly but I have a code snippet of htaccess to improve wordpress performance. It's just that my brain has never understood Regex :/
I also have code snippets for validations and other little things in vanilla javascript.

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Ross Henderson •

We have a few templates we use, and some reusable code snippets.

Stuff like:

Email Validations

case 
   when regexp_like(CUSTOMER_EMAIL_ADDRESS, '^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9_-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)*\.([a-z]{2,4})$') 
   then CUSTOMER_EMAIL_ADDRESS
   else null 
end as "EMAIL_ADDRESS"

Randomise Date Column

update
 TABLE
set
  DATE_COLUMN = TO_DATE(TRUNC(DBMS_RANDOM.value(TO_CHAR(date '2018-03-06','J'),TO_CHAR(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,'J'))),'J');

Etc...

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Kasey Speakman • • Edited

I've had a discussion about snippets on here somewhere before. But for me and my programming style, I view code snippets as a horror. I can see that they would be useful for some cases, but those are cases I tend to avoid. What I often do is to create types and functions to encapsulate some code, put it in a library, and then reuse it in different projects.

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Mihail Malo •

Any reason you are using string index notation (data["addTo"]) and not dot notation (data.addTo)?

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Itachi Uchiha •

For example, I could have a key like that;

myObject['userName[]']

In this case, I can't use like that myObject.userName[]

There are many reasons to use index notation.

medium.com/@prufrock123/js-dot-not...

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Mihail Malo •

Yeah, but you don't.
There are many reasons not to, as well.

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Meghan (she/her) •

I use them so often I made my own library (github.com/nektro/basalt)

In particular of note, I have (github.com/nektro/basalt/blob/mast...)

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Itachi Uchiha •

This looks much better and cleaner.

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Adrian B.G. •

"The ones that do no use frameworks, end up making their own square wheel".

You should not have many snippets between projects, engines, frameworks and shared libs yes.

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Debashis Dip •

I do have some common nginx config file suited for my projects, and some general python util functions that i need here and there

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Sagar •

clg => console.log()

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Itachi Uchiha •

What kind of codes? But I understand you. Sometimes you don't want to spend more times because of the same problems.