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Stop Fighting JavaScript: 6 Tricks That Finally Made Me Enjoy Coding Again
4 min read3 days ago
For years, I hated debugging JS. These tricks made me fall back in love with it.
1. The Night I Almost Gave Up on JavaScript
It was 2:47 AM.
I was staring at a wall of undefined is not a function errors that made zero sense.
The funny part? The function existed. I wrote it.
But somewhere between promises, async calls, and a mysterious missing semicolon, JavaScript decided to betray me.
That night, I was this close to rewriting everything in Python.
But then something changed.
Instead of fighting JavaScript, I decided to outsmart it.
I started treating it like automation not syntax.
And when I approached it like that, I started discovering tricks, patterns, and tiny libraries that made JS not only bearable but… fun.
Here are 6 JavaScript tricks that finally made me enjoy coding again straight from my late-night debugging scars.
