I still have to Google...

Javascript foreach loop syntax.

for(var x as y) {

No...

foreach(var x in y) {

Nope...

... checks...

x.forEach(function(y) {

That’s the one I’m after!

Hi, I’m Jake, a lead developer. I’ve been programming for 15 years, 10 of those professionally.

This is something I continually try to get over to students/new developers. Even after all these years there are things I can’t remember and have to look up.

So, what do you have to google?

Comments

[Eric Gruby]

• Git commands
• Redux devtools setup
• Regex stuff
• CSS grid
• SCSS functions/loops
• text-decoration: line-through - I always write "through" wrong... it's quite embarrassing 😅

Hi! I'm Eric, a front-end developer. I've been programming for 10 years, 8 of those professionally ✌️

[Stephanie Smith]

Most of the time, I'm looking up array methods - especially slice() and splice(), as I haven't yet gotten used to the difference between them. :)

[Adam]

I've been doing this software thing for yearsssss... and I'll still forget the arg placements to those.

Don't sweat it.

[tommy george]

✋🏽 Been building things on the web since ~1994. I still "google" things, and have to hit the docs on a regular basis. Absolutely nothing wrong with referencing documentation. That's what it's there for!

If it really makes someone feel better to memorize something -- great! Go for it! I'd rather take a quick peek at some docs, and move on building something! =)

[Jacob Baker]

Having all the resources available at your fingertips keeps more room in your memory for other things!

Back at a company I used to work for they had an old (dusty now) bookcase which had a ton of old reference books that they used before the days of Google and easily searchable information. Always wondered what it would be like to work back then.

[Doug Black]

PHP Date formats. If it's outside of Y-m-d, I forget it.

[Jacob Baker]

Oh god, yes. I mentioned in another comment I always have to check one way or another when switching between languages. HH:mm:ss -- for JS, yep, makes sense. H:i:s -- for PHP whaaa.

[Alexandru Simandi]

I think it's also because JS doc and examples are the most accessible on the internet. The brain picks the path of least resistance.

[Daniel Schulz]

A lot of that functional js stuff, most prominently Array functions.
Oh, and CSS Grid.

[Ben Sinclair]

Needles and haystacks in PHP. I know I could use some kind of intellisense plugin, but I don't wanna.

[Zane Milakovic]

DuckDuckGo....

For me it is switch syntax. I know it, but I always question myself, idk why. And I have been doing this for 18 years. It’s like a instinct now.

[Anton Melnyk]

Well maybe not forEach loop 😀, but complex things like regex, time formatting, functions like reduce... Sometimes indeed you can google it even if you wrote them one hundred time already!

[Chandu J S]

I have to google for bootstrap carousel code every time I need it. 😐