The issue with deep cloning objects in javaScript comes up now and then. Maybe one day I will write a full post on the matter, and all the ways to go about doing it. However this is a post on lodash, and as such I will just be writing about the _.cloneDeep method. I have wrote a post on the lodash clone method before which is okay for shallow copy clones of objects, but if I want to copy nested objects as well the lodash clone deep method should be used, or some other means to make a so called deep copy clone of an object.

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So I wanted to make a simple tool to run threw all of my blog posts that have been parsed into html, and find certain values such as word count for my posts. In other words I want to create a collection of objects for each html file, or have a way to convert to a JSON format from HTML. So there should be some kind of dependency in the npmjs ecosystem that I can use to just quickly turn html into an object tyoe form that I can work with in a node environment, similarly to that of what I can work with in a browser or client side javaScript environment.

WIth that being said I took a little time to see what there is to work with if anything and after doing so I found a few projects that work nice. However in this post I will mostly be writing about a npm package called html-to-json. This package has a method where I can feed it an html string, and what is returned is a workable object.

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So you have a bunch of files in a folder, and you want to do something involving the content of each file. You might only want to bother with a certain kind of file, and you might want to know each filename. Well one npm package that I have found that helps a whole lot with that is node-dir, and I find it a bit of a time saver compared to just making something from the ground up.

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When making a backbone project the first and foremost thing to focus on in my view is the Model of a project. However once I have a Model that is in good shape there is a desire to make a front end in order to view some of that data in the state of that Model, and of course interact with that Model. That is to make a View to view and work with a Model.

To make a view in backbone it will involve using the extend method of Backbone.View, as such this post will give a quick example of that to get things started.

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When making a backbone Model, I am going to get into many situations in which I will want to get, and set values for various attributes in the attributes object of a backbone Model. Getting values is not a big deal as the model.get(‘foo’) method is just a shorthand for model.attributes.foo. However it is important to use the set method to set values rather than directly modifying the attributes object so that any events that have been defined will work. In this post I will be showing some simple examples of the set model method in backbone.

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