https://mdn.io

Hey there so today I wrote my blog post and in the process of doing that I

realized that I was doing something kind of weird. So, I have this projectthat's the KCD discord bot and the bot is responsible for a whole bunch ofthings that happen on my discord and it's awesome.

You'll meet the bot the it's the first thing that you experience when you

join the discord because you can't join the discord without answering thebots questions. So I was making some changes to it and I in writing my bloganytime I write my blog. I'm always going to be writing about somethingthat I'm working on recently or something.

I've been.Thinking about a lot recently or whatever. And so I found some

code that I'd written in the bot and for a listifying an array of elementsfor display. So you'd say, you know, we have a thanks command so you canthink a list of developers for a specific thing and we want to have the botsay thank you these list of developers for or these list of people for thisthing.

So you have to have the common the right place you need to and whatever.

And so I decided hey, I'll just explain how I wrote this because it wasusing a reduced and it was.Actually really interesting and good use casefor reduced because the doing the same thing with a for loop was kind ofmore complicated.

And so I was writing it and then I remembered oh yeah, there's like a

built-in thing and in the in toll library built into JavaScript forformatting a list. And I think I probably used that or at least explainthat and then explain why I needed to write this thing myself.

And as I was writing the blog post, I realized I didn't need to write the

listified function myself or at least I didn't need to write the innerworkings of it. I could just wrap theList format utility that's built intothe Intel API in JavaScript. And so, I I tried that out and it ended upworking and so what I wanted to share with you today was that sometimes youmight be doing more work than you need to because the platform alreadygives you a lot of really interesting things and especially the Intel APIhas a lot to offer that I find myself and others re-implementing like whenit comes to dates and stuff like that too like formatting things fordisplay is a lot of what the Intel API.

Allows you to do So that would be something to go give a look at it's kind

of interesting and yeah, sometimes the platform is lacking in certain waysbut often like this is platform that we build on is pretty capable andthere are a lot of really cool things that it can do and spending some timeon MDN is a good use of your time.

So next time you're stuck in a checkout line or something if you do that

thing during coffee I guess but next time you're you're stuck in a line oror just waiting for something go check out FDN and look up some stuff youhaven't learned before. It's aGood spot.

See ya.