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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
At work, I have to build software in the confines of a somewhat limited platform. It has some similarities to (and even integrations with) SharePoint.
When I need to do more advanced things than the platform offers, I can inject HTML and JavaScript into elements on the page. This is a bit like using the content builder or script web parts that SharePoint used to provide.
I was struggling to figure out why some JavaScript was producing errors when injected into the page, even though it worked in the browser console and passed validation. The issue ended up being code comments. Because the code is injected as a single string, it processed everything after my comment as a comment.
I can't wait until I find another job where I'm not fighting with tools that claim to make development easier while creating more obstacles.