Regex looks intimidating until you’ve internalized maybe a dozen symbols — after that it’s just the fastest way to validate, search, or extract text by pattern instead of writing a string-parsing function by hand. This is a working reference: the symbols that come up constantly, three real examples in different languages, and when it’s actually […]
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Gulp is a JavaScript task runner that automates the repetitive parts of a front-end build — minification, compilation, linting, browser reload — using plain JavaScript instead of a config file. It processes files through Node.js streams rather than writing intermediate files to disk, which is a meaningful part of why it’s fast: less disk I/O
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SharePoint doesn’t have one “add attachment” button that works everywhere — which method you reach for depends on whether you’re writing client-side JavaScript, building an SPFx web part, or automating something from a script. The three approaches below all do the same thing: attach a file to a specific list item. The difference is what
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Two ways to upload a file to a SharePoint document library via code — raw REST calls, or PnPjs — plus what changes once the file is big enough that a single request isn’t the right approach anymore. In this post: Option 1: raw REST API · Option 2: PnPjs · Large files: chunked uploads
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Updating a thousand SharePoint list items one request at a time is slow and burns through API throttling limits fast. PnPjs batching bundles multiple operations into a single HTTP call instead — here’s the syntax for both the older and current versions of the library, and the real limit worth knowing before you rely on
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In this post: Introduction · Understanding SharePoint User Roles · Checking If a User Is an Admin in an SPFx WebPart · Checking in an Application Customizer · Alternative: Checking Site Owners Group Membership · The simpler check you probably want first · Pros and Cons of Different Approaches · Related reading Introduction When working
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Handlebars.js separates HTML structure from the JavaScript that fills it with data — instead of building markup with string concatenation, you write a template with {{placeholders}} and compile it against a data object. Here’s what it actually looks like, where it fits, and where a real framework is the better call instead. In this post:
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ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot get compared a lot, but they’re not really competing for the same job. ChatGPT is a general conversational assistant; Copilot is built into a code editor and scoped around software development. Worth noting up front: both products change their pricing and feature set often enough that anything below is a snapshot,
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An apostrophe in a data value — a name like O’Reilly, a title like Harry’s Adventures — breaks a SharePoint REST `$filter` query, because OData uses single quotes as the string delimiter and has no way to tell a literal apostrophe apart from the end of the string. The fix is one specific, verified rule:
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Command Sets and Application Customizers scope to specific list templates the same way, through `RegistrationType`/`RegistrationId` in `elements.xml`. Field Customizers don’t — they’re registered against a specific column, not a list template, a genuinely different mechanism worth knowing before assuming one pattern covers all three extension types this post touches on. In this post: Scoping a
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