🔥 Daily Digest: GitHub Celebrates 150M Developers with Free Copilot—Explore the Top Tools and Trends!

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Hello Developers!

GitHub reaches 150M developers and launches free Copilot with VS Code integration, making coding more accessible. Learn how to build multi-step forms with Vanilla JavaScript and CSS, and compare Windsurf vs Cursor to find the best AI coding editor. Discover how to add PDFs to your webpage without JavaScript and explore Warp, the new CRaC engine for better performance.

For tools, check out table for building robust data grids, tandem.chat for seamless remote collaboration, video.js for open-source video playback, imaskjs for input masking, and vue-trix, a lightweight rich-text editor.

Dive in and keep coding!

• GitHub Reaches 150M Developers, Launches Free Copilot and VS Code Integration

• How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS.

• Windsurf vs Cursor: which is the better AI code editor?

• Adding PDFs to Your Webpage without JavaScript.

• Warp: the new CRaC engine.

More news here →

Get Selected Text

The getSelectedText function retrieves the text currently selected by the user using the window.getSelection method.

const getSelectedText = () => window.getSelection().toString();

// Select text on the page and run the function
console.log(getSelectedText()); // Outputs the selected text

How it works:

1. window.getSelection() retrieves the current selection made by the user.

2. .toString() converts the selection to plain text.

Use Cases:

• Text Annotation Tools: Highlight and capture user-selected text for annotations.

• Copy Features: Enable easy copying of user-selected text.

• Interactive UI Elements: Trigger actions based on selected text, like searching or sharing.

More code snippets here →

• table - Headless UI for building powerful tables & datagrids for React, Solid, Vue, Svelte, Qwik and TS/JS.

• tandem.chat - Work together synchronously with virtual meetings, calendar alerts, and high fives - even while remote.

• video.js - open source HTML5 video player.

• imaskjs - vanilla javascript input mask.

• vue-trix - A simple and lightweight rich-text editor for writing daily.

More code libs here →

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