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Hot take: I spent a whole weekend trying to make a simple button in JavaScript and it broke my whole page
I was following a tutorial on freeCodeCamp and typed 'document.getElementByID' instead of 'getElementById' (the 'd' is lowercase). The console gave me a weird error about something being null, and I spent like 6 hours checking everything else before I saw it. It taught me that coding is super picky about spelling, way more than I thought. Has anyone else lost a ton of time to a single typo?
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the_sam5mo ago
My linter catches those lowercase typos instantly.
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patel.daniel5mo ago
Man, @the_sam, my linter saves me from that same embarrassment daily.
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sage7875mo ago
Linters are great but sometimes you gotta learn the hard way. That pain of finding a tiny typo after hours makes you check your code twice forever.
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