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Comments on Understanding createTreeWalker method in the context of replacing strings (or parts of them)

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Understanding createTreeWalker method in the context of replacing strings (or parts of them)

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I want to ensure I understand the following code; credit to user:m3g4p0p on Sitepoint, for this code:

const walker = document.createTreeWalker(
  document.body, 
  NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT
)

let node;

while ((node = walker.nextNode())) {
  node.textContent = node.textContent.replace('a', 'b')
}

Exceptionally I have two questions:

  • How do you understand each stage of the code?
  • How does storing replaced strings in the node variable makes a change in the text appearing to the end user?
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"How do you understand each stage of the code?" (2 comments)
"How does storing replaced strings in a variable makes a change to the end user?" (2 comments)
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"How do you understand each stage of the code?"
elgonzo‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

That's an awfully unspecific and vague question, with basically the only answer possible in this vague context being: "By reading the code, and looking up the documentation for any method or property that is unfamiliar". Okay, i lied. There is another answer to that vague question: "What exactly do you mean?"

deleted user wrote almost 3 years ago

I have minorly edited; in my mind, this code is ordinal (imperative is the right word, I think); stage after stage, and that's what I want to understand in a constructed answer which could resemble good code comments, not general documentation about each command.