You may have seen JavaScript printing [object Object] when casting an object to a string. The [object Object] notation doesn’t give you information about the kind of object. You have to guess what object could cause this printing. This is where Symbol.toStringTag is helpful and this tutorial shows …

Converting plain JavaScript objects to strings results in '[object Object]'. This string representation isn’t helpful when debugging issues or looking for details. You can print details for an object when using a JSON string. But you don’t always want to print an object in a JSON …

In some situations, you need the number of days within a month. For example, when displaying statistics for each day of a month or when calculating a value with the unit “per day”. This tutorial shows you how to retrieve the number of days in a month using JavaScript. {{outline} …

Working with dates in an application requires you to think of time zones. Users are going to access your application from different time zones. They expect displayed dates to either match their personal timezone or to contain the timezone information, a la UTC+02:00. A common approach to handling …

The JavaScript and Node.js ecosystem has a large package ecosystem. You’re typically installing dependencies using a package manager, like npm. Another option is to write the needed code yourself. No matter which direction you’re choosing, your application needs to load the needed files from your own project …

You can create a JSON string from anything in JavaScript using the JSON.stringify(anything) method. However, the resulting JSON string may not contain the expected values. For example, if you’re JSON serializing a JavaScript error, you’ll notice that its JSON string doesn’t contain any properties. JavaScript …

The Fs.realpath method in Node.js resolves the actual file system location of a given path. For example, you’re typically creating a symlink for nginx configuration files from the directory containing all available files to the directory having the enabled files. You can use the Node.js file …

You may notice a deprecation warning in your terminal that the fs.Stats constructor is deprecated. Node.js deprecated the public fs.Stats constructor in version 22.0.0: (node:17560) [DEP0180] DeprecationWarning: fs.Stats constructor is deprecated. (Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created) This tutorial …