Time now for another one of my canvas examples, this time I think I will make a basic example of a scrolling map. This is something that will come into play for many projects that are some kind of game that involves a large world map of cells or tiles.

This will be a basic getting started canvas example of a map, and moving around such a map. So it might not be the best solution for large maps, as I have not put a lot of time into this to improve performance.

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The lodash orderby method is one of several options in lodash for sorting collections mainly arrays. It works more or less the same way as the lodash sortby method, but it allows for setting the sort orders ( ascending or descending ) of each method that is used to sort the collection.

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I have made a habit of writing a post on the subject of bogging in general rather than javaScript, and javaScript related topics at the start of a new year. So this will be a yet another blog plan post for the year of 2020. No buddy really seams to read these, but thats okay its more for my sake anyway because it is important for me to know where this site is going, and what the next move should be moving forward.

A course change of sorts is needed here, and after giving this some thought I have come to the conclusion that I need to focus more on just one or two general topics rather than trying to gain ground everywhere. My best preforming content seems to be on lodash and functional programing, but much of the content is thin, and desires more attention so that should be one topic at least for that reason. The other topic should be something fun, original, and interesting that might help to improve retention. I also want to focus on something fun to help me keep from seeing this as a job with a very poor return on investment more often than not.

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When making a nodejs project or any javaScript project for that matter there comes a time now and then to convert an object to a string representation of that object. In nodejs there is the node inspect method in the core nodejs util module, there are other ways of doing so such as using the JSON stringify method.

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In javaScript functions are a central part of much of the code that a javaScript developer will be studying and writing. The basics of functions in javaScript are something that can be quickly picked up in a flash, however there are many other aspects of functions in javaScript, and in general that might take longer to get solid.

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