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Get name and line of calling function in node.js

How can one get the name and line of a function that called the current one? I would like to have a rudimentary debugging function like this (with npmlog defining log.debug): When called from another function it would be something like this: For clarity, what I want is essentially analogous to this in Python: Is there a Node equivalent to

Moment.js – how do I get the number of years since a date, not rounded up?

I’m trying to calculate a person’s age using Moment.js, but I’m finding that the otherwise useful fromNow method rounds up the years. For instance, if today is 12/27/2012 and the person’s birth date is 02/26/1978, moment(“02/26/1978”, “MM/DD/YYYY”).fromNow() returns ’35 years ago’. How can I make Moment.js ignore the number of months, and simply return the number of years (i.e. 34)

Why is extending native objects a bad practice?

Every JS opinion leader says that extending the native objects is a bad practice. But why? Do we get a perfomance hit? Do they fear that somebody does it “the wrong way”, and adds enumerable types to Object, practically destroying all loops on any object? Take TJ Holowaychuk’s should.js for example. He adds a simple getter to Object and everything

Convert integer array to string at javascript

Here is php code: the output is: 中文chinese Here is javascript code: the output is: 中æchinese So how should I process the array at javascript? Answer JavaScript strings consist of UTF-16 code units, yet the numbers in your array are the bytes of a UTF-8 string. Here is one way to convert the string, which uses the decodeURIComponent() function: Performing

Access user email address in Meteor JS app

I am building an app using Meteor and need to access the stored email address of a logged-in user. I am currently using: to access the user. However, I am only able to access the id. The email address is stored in a nested object that looks like this: I have tried various ways to traverse the JSON object but

InfoWindow & GeoCoder

I have an issue with getting longitude and latitude values geocoded and then display the relevant address in an info window. I have tried multiple ways without success, however I must admit that I am not so familiar with javascript. I am continuously getting back as value : “undefined”. Here is a snippet of my code showing the main components:

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