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A Live KeyboardEvent Inspector — Settling the `event.key` vs `event.code` Question for JS Shortcuts

DEV Community·SEN LLC·about 1 month ago
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When you bind Ctrl+S to "save" in a web app, do you check event.key === "s" or event.code === "KeyS" ? The honest answer is "I don't remember, I copy-paste from Stack Overflow." Until a Dvorak user reports the shortcut is broken — or a Japanese IME user reports it fires mid-composition. This is a live inspector for KeyboardEvent : press any key (or combination), see every field — key , code , keyCode , modifier state, IME composition flag, key location — light up at once. Built to make the answers obvious. ~150 lines of vanilla JS plus an 80-line pure helper module with 11 node --test cases.…

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