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    Create a breadcrumb list of links with JavaScript and use it inside your React applications!

    The advantages of using breadcrumbs in your web applications are widely known.

    Suppose we have the following example of chained links in a breadcrumb:

    Main page > Main category 1 > Sub category 1 > Product 1

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    How to check if a string in JavaScript contains only numbers

    There is often the case that you want to check if a string in JavaScript contains only numbers or you might just want to extract the numbers from a string, but you want to do this extraction only when the string only contains numbers. The most common case for such check is when you want to read a value (returned as string from JavaScript) from an input field of a form and evaluate if this value is a number or not.

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    A quick guide about how to transfer your Jekyll blog from GitHub to Bitbucket and host it with Aerobatic for free!

    Recently I decided to transfer my personal blog which is implemented with Jekyll from GitHub to Bitbucket and access it with the Aerobatic addon.

    Here is a compact list of steps you have to follow if you also want to host your Jekyll blog on Bitbucket:

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    How to convert a number in Less code into a valid CSS measuring unit

    When working with less you most probably have to do some calculations and assign their result in a CSS property, for example into a width of a CSS class or a margin of an CSS id.

    Apart from the calculated number you want to generate valid CSS code, so you also have to apply a measuring unit to this number, for example pixels or ems or percentages.

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    Is there a naming convention for TypeScript interfaces?

    The TypeScript language was created from Microsoft as a super-set of typed-rules for JavaScript. The language contains features that one finds in C#, something that is completely understandable since the inventor of TypeScript also invented C#.

    TypeScript provides interfaces that are used for two main reasons:

    1. Standardize/ Giving a type to an object, by defining the properties that an object contains.

    2. Define a structure of properties and/ or functions that a class has to implement. Doing this way you can define multiple implementations that implement the interface. In this case, the interface works as a contract (known best practice term from C#) that the classes have to respect.

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