Check it out on my Github repo :)

Below are a few things that I learned while building this calculator:

e.preventDefault()

I learned, the importance of e.preventDefault() when you are in development and using javascript.

While building my calculator, I would input a number and the page would immediately refresh. I could not figure out why until I reviewed some of the notes I took in the past about e.preventDefault()

The Event interface's preventDefault() method tells the user agent that if the event does not get explicitly handled, its default action should not be taken as it normally would be. The event continues to propagate as usual, unless one of its event listeners calls stopPropagation() or stopImmediatePropagation(), either of which terminates propagation at once.

How I interpret the above is that JS has default settings for event listeners and e.preventDefault() stops the default settings from from taken place unless it is called upon. I could be wrong, but all I know is that it stopped my page from constantly refreshing when I needed to handle my click event.

Changing Inputted Value from String to Integer

I also learned an easy way to convert a string to an integer:

    let checkAmount = document.getElementById('check-amount').value;

Above document.getElementById('check-amount').value returns a string value that the user inputs. However, I was building a tip calculator meaning I had to make calculations and I can not do that with a string. So to convert the value, I learned that all I had to do was put a + in front of the value and it would convert it for me.

    let checkAmount = +document.getElementById('check-amount').value;

isNaN function

Lastly, error catch! I learned how to use isNaN function to stop check if a value is NaN or not.

    if (isNaN(checkAmount)){
        displayResults("Error, please enter a number");
        return;
    }

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Sincerely,
Brittany