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Improving Our Code & Readability
Lab: Remove Query String from Static Resource URL
Video Runtime: 11:52
In the last episode, we parsed the URL and then used the host element to check if the URL is local to our website. Shouldn’t we use that same strategy for our version query string check? Think about it. Why search the entire URL for the version key pattern when we could just search the query itself? Plus, if the asset was enqueued with the version number set to null, then query may not even be in the parsed URL.
Let’s improve our code.
Then we’ll walk through all of the checks and make each one readable without an inline comment.
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Who needs copy/paste? Right. Writing code from scratch is fun!
Episodes
Total Lab Runtime: 03:18:22
- 1 Lab Introductionfree 09:30
- 2 What is a URL Query String?free 14:36
- 3 The Intent of ?ver=1.0.0free 12:22
- 4 Understanding the Problemfree 14:01
- 5 Cache Busting Strategiesfree 09:57
- 6 Planning Our Pluginpro 18:17
- 7 Versioning Utility Helper Filepro 08:36
- 8 Start the URL Converter Classpro 18:11
- 9 Hook into WordPresspro 11:57
- 10 Regex or Parse the URL?pro 12:30
- 11 Convert with Regexpro 06:10
- 12 Apache and Nginx Rewrite Rulespro 10:43
- 13 Deciding Whether to Convertpro 07:35
- 14 Skip When No Version Query Stringpro 09:18
- 15 Only the Local Assetspro 14:09
- 16 Improving Our Code & Readabilitypro 11:52
- 17 Test, Fine-Tune, and Wrap it Uppro 08:38
