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If you're able to input invalid URL's I guess I didn't test the regex thoroughly enough ;) I'll look into it. The prepending "http" is just a lazy hack to handle the case where the…

Good point. Yes, in theory they could be duplicated. I chose 6 characters firstly to keep the url as short as possible (I thought 5 chars was too short, 7 too long). I am planning …

Was bored at work so I threw this together. First bash at a Node app. Built a simple Chrome extension for it too.

"Duck extends Bird" is not the wrong thing at all. As other comments have pointed out, the justifications in the article don't apply to someone who is just starting out learning th…

THAT'S WHY ITS A BEGINNER TUTORIAL. Get off your high horse.

No. Just means you write more code. If you spend that time learning different languages and design patterns, it can make you a better developer.