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Vidya Ramakrishnan

Front-end developer at HasGeek

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localStorage

window.App.Store = {
  /* Local storage can only save strings, so value is converted 
  into strings and stored. */
  add: function(key, value) {
    return localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
  },
  // Reads from LocalStorage.
  read: function(key) {
    return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(key));
  },
  // To remove item and clear
  remove: function(key) {
    return localStorage.removeItem(key);
  },
  // To clear localStorage
  remove: function(key) {
    return localStorage.clear();
  }
};

Use case: Save the data(not sensitive information) that needs to be sent to server,  to localStorage when offline. Once network connectivity is back, read from localStorage and sent it to the server. Local storage wasn't designed to store secure data

browser support
Further reading:- Indexdb

navigator.onLine

if (!navigator.onLine) {
  console.log("You are offline");
} else {
  /* Device could be connected to WiFi but there could be no internet
  fetch('/1/api').then(function(response) {
    console.log("You are online");
  }).catch(function(err) {
    console.log("You are offline");
  });
}


// Detect changes to network state by listening for the events

window.addEventListener('offline', function(event) { 
    console.log("You're offline"); 
});

window.addEventListener('online', function(event) { 
  fetch('/1/api').then(function(response) {
    console.log("You are online");
  }).catch(function(err) {
    console.log("You are offline");
  });; 
});

To check network connection of the browser.
Returns a boolean value, true meaning online and false meaning offline.

browser support

navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia

navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: false, video: { facingMode: "environment" })
.then(function(mediaStream) {
  var video = document.createElement("video");
  video.srcObject = mediaStream;
  document.body.appendChild(video);
  video.play();
})
.catch(function(err) {
  console.log('Error');
});

navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia() prompts the user for permission to use a media input (audio/video) which output a media stream
Use case: To scan QR code from web apps using jsQR
This library takes in raw images and will locate, extract and parse any QR code found within.

browser support

postMessage


targetWindow.postMessage(message, targetOrigin, [transfer]);
window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);


// Window.parent (the parent window from within an embedded <iframe>)
window.parent.postMessage(JSON.stringify({
  context: "iframe.resize", 
  height: document.body.scrollHeight,
  width: document.body.scrollWidth,
  id: {{ request.args.get('iframeid') | tojson }}
}), '*');


/* Listen to message from iframe and 
set the height of the iframe accordingly */
window.addEventListener('message', function(event) {
  if(event.origin == verifiedHostname) {
     var message = JSON.parse(event.data);
     if(message.context == "iframe.resize" && message.id) {
        document.getElementById(message.id).setAttribute('height', message.height);
     }
   }
}, false);

window.postMessage() allows cross-origin communication between Window objects.
It allows safe communication between windows and frames hosted on different domains
Use case: This helps resizing of iframe embedded on a different domain

browser support

 document API

querySelector(), querySelectorAll(), classList

 

// querySelector and querySelectorAll

let list = document.querySelector('ul.inline-list');

let items = list.querySelectorAll('li');


//classList

<div class="item show">
  ....
</div>

let elem = document.querySelector('.item');

console.log('classes', elem.classList); // ["item", "show", value: "item show"]

elem.classList.add('spin', 'animate');

console.log(elem.classList.contains('spin')); //true

elem.classList.remove('spin');

elem.classList.toggle('show');

Copy to clipboard using JS without flash


<div class="copy">Hello, world</div>
<p class="error-msg">Copy error</p>

var elem = document.querySelector('.copy');
var selection = window.getSelection();
var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(elem);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
elem.addEventListener('click', function() {
	try {
	  document.execCommand('copy');
	  selection.removeAllRanges();
	  elem.classList.add('copied');
	} catch(e) {
	  var error = document.querySelector('.error-msg');
  	  error.classList.add('show');
	}
});

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