The State Changers focused on troubleshooting JavaScript issues within a webpage, in particular, conflict with the "document ready" function, and the role of event handlers in managing elements that may not yet exist at the time of the document becoming ready. They focused on specific scripts with potential conflicts and manipulated elements within DevTools to isolate problem areas.
It was observed that the HTML is all there, the accordions were built into the page structure but weren't working as anticipated, with a hypothesis being that the document ready function and the sequence of events after it may not be applying as needed to those elements in the page. Using DevTools, they examined if the next text block existed at the beginning of the page or was created later, and concluded that it was created later. As the element doesn't exist at the onset, they highlighted the possibility of applying the event handler when the element is actually created, as opposed to embedding the event into the script. The discussion involved using console logs to track and isolate issues, and endeavoring to understand the functioning of the click handler. The intricate meeting was a deep dive into JavaScript and HTML problem-solving focused on the functionalities of the document ready function, event handlers, click handlers, and the timeline of element creation on a webpage. Tools like DevTools were significantly used to live test and gain insights into the issues. The script tagging feature was also discussed in passing. The other listed technology stack was not part of this meeting. This meeting is helpful for JavaScript developers working with similar issues in real-time webpages.
(Source: Office Hours 6/7 )
