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(React JS Writing MiniGame) How to return an array of numbers up to length 5 from local storage?

Making a speed typing game.
Two buttons, START GAME (self explanatory) and GET LAST RESULTS (Get the last few results, up to a maximum of 5, from previous game scores stored in localstorage.
I made a custom hook called useWordGame.js, and imported it into App.js.
Currently, everything works fine, the word count shows up at the end of each game, and I can reset and play another game.
But when I click, GET LAST RESULTS, everything falls apart, and I can't figure out why. The UI diappears, only the background remains, and I get a cross origin error I can't figure out.
If its easier, here are the places I have the project:
Here is the github repo of the project:
https://github.com/qrbaxter/TEXT_TYPE_3
and here is the SCRIM from scrimba.com, an interactive tool for coding:
https://scrimba.com/scrim/co6ec40d1ab086a0708e5bf2a
And the two pieces of code I believe im messing up are the endgame function:
`function endGame() {
setIsTimeRunning(false);
const newWordCount = calculateWordCount(text);
setIsToggledOn(false);
const previousResults = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("wordnumbers")) || [];
const latestResults = [newWordCount, ...previousResults.slice(0, 4)];
localStorage.setItem("wordnumbers", JSON.stringify(latestResults));
setWordCount(newWordCount);
}`
and the getResults function:
`function getResults() {
setResults(true)
const theResults = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("wordnumbers"))
const SCORES_LIMIT = 10;
if (scores && scores.length > SCORES_LIMIT) {
return scores.slice(-SCORES_LIMIT);
}
return scores.length === 0 ? "Insufficient Data" : scores
}`
I know im naming something wrong here or just using the wrong logic but my brain is friend after so long trying to figure this out. Could someone help me out please?
SUMMARY: I tried to create array wordnumbers in local storage, add items to it at the end of each game, and onclick of GET LAST RESULTS, retrieve wordnumbers array, however many items it has of most recent games, up to and including the most recent FIVE games.
I don't know what im doing wrong.

Web Audio API demo doesn't work on iOS

I'm currently working on adapting this web audio API demo for a project that I am working on, but there is no sound when I test on an iPhone. It works fine on the iPad.
I've searched for solutions and found this thread on StackOverflow with the following snippet of one of the answers:
Safari on iOS 6 effectively starts with the Web Audio API muted. It
will not unmute until you attempt to play a sound in a user input
event (create a buffer source, connect it to destination, and call
noteOn()). After this, it unmutes and audio plays unrestricted and as
it ought to. This is an undocumented aspect of how the Web Audio API
works on iOS 6 (Apple's doc is here, hopefully they update it with a
mention of this soon!)
The user input event should be the onclick event on the play button but changing to use noteOn() instead of start() still doesn't fix it.
Update: I've also tried binding the play button with the touchend event but to no avail.
Here is the function that uses noteOn():
function playNote(buffer, pan, x, y, z, sendGain, mainGain, playbackRate, noteTime) {
// Create the note
var voice = context.createBufferSource();
voice.buffer = buffer;
voice.playbackRate.value = playbackRate;
// Optionally, connect to a panner
var finalNode;
if (pan) {
var panner = context.createPanner();
panner.panningModel = "HRTF";
panner.setPosition(x, y, z);
voice.connect(panner);
finalNode = panner;
} else {
finalNode = voice;
}
// Connect to dry mix
var dryGainNode = context.createGain();
dryGainNode.gain.value = mainGain * effectDryMix;
finalNode.connect(dryGainNode);
dryGainNode.connect(masterGainNode);
// Connect to wet mix
var wetGainNode = context.createGain();
wetGainNode.gain.value = sendGain;
finalNode.connect(wetGainNode);
wetGainNode.connect(convolver);
if (iOS) {
voice.noteOn(noteTime);
}
else {
voice.start(noteTime);
}
}
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I feel really stupid. Apparently, if you have your iPhone on vibrate mode, the sound doesn't play.

The start() method should work fine without the if else statements on iOS as long as you call the function with a user interaction event. Also flip the order you pass y and z to the panner cause z is second for some strange reason.
Here's a working example, change stuff in it to fit what you need, most isn't need and I've got others somewhere that use the dom to add event listeners
<script>
var audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)();
var oscillator = audioCtx.createOscillator();
var gainNode = audioCtx.createGain();
oscillator.connect(gainNode);
gainNode.connect(audioCtx.destination);
oscillator.type = 'sine';
oscillator.frequency.value = 440;
gainNode.gain.value = 1;
</script>
<button onclick="oscillator.start();">play</button>

My own experience has been that sometimes the Web Audio API works on iPhones, sometimes it doesn't. Here is a page that worked 5 minutes ago on my iPhone 6s; 1 minute ago it didn't work; now it does again!
http://www.stephenandrewtaylor.net/dna-sonification/
Here is another one that works intermittently; it worked 2 minutes ago and now it doesn't (the animations work, there is just no audio).
http://www.stephenandrewtaylor.net/lie-sonification/
It might have to do with how many tabs are open in Safari; you could try closing some of your open tabs (right now I have 5 tabs, including the lie-sonificaton page which worked 2 minutes ago but now doesn't). I am also a novice programmer and I'm sure there are much better ways I could be writing the code.

Text to speech using javascript and translate_tts

I have been trying to get my webpage to play up what it says in a text box when the user click on a link, but so far I haven't manage. I have tried with
function listen(){
var sound = new Audio();
sound.src = "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=sv&q=Testar";
sound.play();
alert(":D");
return false;
}
and
function listen(){
var sound = document.createElement("audio");
sound.setAttribute("src","http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=sv&q=Testar");
sound.load();
sound.play();
alert(":D");
return false;
}
I have tried adding ie=UTF-8 to the link, and tried both with and without sound.play(); but nothing have worked. I get smiley face from the alert so I know the function runs. Can someone please help me get this to work.
EDIT: I did a work around by using and iframe which I hide by using display: none; and then simply using javascript to change the src, not the best solution but it works... for now.

This is an easy way to do it :
var sound = new Audio("http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=sv&q=Testar");
sound.play();

Now it's a bit more complicated, but still possible:
you need set up an user-agent string like a common browser and, more difficult, you also must provide a token into the GET request.
Some people managed to extract the token algorithm from the js code of the page, but it's quite a long work and at any time the algorithm changes you need to start again the reverse engineering of the cryptic code.
So it's much easier access to a particular url from the same site that generates an XHR that shows the token you need.
A simple script with phantomjs and grep will do the job for you, details here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/37221340/6332793

using the video.js api duration call returns 0 while video is much longer

okay So I'm trying to leverage the video.js project as it's seems pretty amazing!
anyways, im writing my first script that interacts with the api which can be found below. it's basically just supposed to output the current play time to the div current_time , the id of video tag is my_stream anyways here's all my javascript ... the problem im having is playLength=0 and current time never updates when video is playing and remains at 0 (ie. is never more then 0 ) im not sure what im doing wrong here ... the api rules i followed can also be found here video.js api docs
function current_time(){
_V_("my_stream").ready(function(){
var myPlayer = this;
// EXAMPLE:
var playLength = myPlayer.duration();
do
{
var position = myPlayer.currentTime();
var myTextArea = document.getElementById('time_count');
myTextArea.innerHTML = position;
}
while(position < playLength);
});
}
window.onload = current_time
anyhelp from any one who's implemented anything with the api or just see something dumb i've done would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

You're assigning the duration to playLength before playback begins. If that's zero when you assign it, it will remain zero. Check the note in the API doc "NOTE: The video must have started loading before the duration can be known, and in the case of Flash, may not be known until the video starts playing."
It looks like you're only concerned about the duration to work out when the video is playing. It would be far better just to use the timeupdate event instead.
var myPlayer;
var myTextArea = document.getElementById('time_count');
videojs('my_stream').ready(function(){
myPlayer = this;
myPlayer.addEvent('timeupdate', onProgress);
});
function onProgress() {
myTextArea.innerHTML = myPlayer.currentTime();
}
This should execute after the DOM has loaded (with window.onload, or jQuery's $(document).ready()), or go in a script tag in the body after the video and #time_count elements.

I Have sort-of solved this problem bymyself by modifying the code I Had written so it now works like so
function current_time(){
_V_("my_stream").ready(function(){
var myPlayer = this;
var playLength = myPlayer.duration();
var position = myPlayer.currentTime();
var myTextArea = document.getElementById('time_count');
myTextArea.innerHTML = position + "/" + playLength;
t=setTimeout(function() {current_time()},2000);
});
}
... although it seems stupid to poll duration continuosly, I actually don't need this value going forward in development, however both populate properly now once the video is playing so it's kinda a solution. I'm not going to except my own answer right away to see if anyone can solve this a better way, or if you can explain why video.js changes the id tag and how to properly deal with it i'll give you an up vote and accept your answer if it all makes sense to me.

Chrome JavaScript location object

I am trying to start 3 applications from a browser by use of custom protocol names associated with these applications. This might look familiar to other threads started on stackoverflow, I believe that they do not help in resolving this issue so please dont close this thread just yet, it needs a different approach than those suggested in other threads.
example:
ts3server://a.b.c?property1=value1&property2=value2
...
...
to start these applications I would do
location.href = ts3server://a.b.c?property1=value1&property2=value2
location.href = ...
location.href = ...
which would work in FF but not in Chrome
I figured that it might by optimizing the number of writes when there will be effectively only the last change present.
So i did this:
function a ()
{
var apps = ['ts3server://...', 'anotherapp://...', '...'];
b(apps);
}
function b (apps)
{
if (apps.length == 0) return;
location.href = apps[0]; alert(apps[0]);
setTimeout(function (rest) {return function () {b(rest);};} (apps.slice(1)), 1);
}
But it didn't solve my problem (actually only the first location.href assignment is taken into account and even though the other calls happen long enough after the first one (thanks to changing the timeout delay to lets say 10000) the applications do not get started (the alerts are displayed).
If I try accessing each of the URIs separately the apps get started (first I call location.href = uri1 by clicking on one button, then I call location.href = uri2 by clicking again on another button).
Replacing:
location.href = ...
with:
var form = document.createElement('form');
form.action = ...
document.body.appendChild(form);
form.submit();
does not help either, nor does:
var frame = document.createElement('iframe');
frame.src = ...
document.body.appendChild(frame);
Is it possible to do what I am trying to do? How would it be done?
EDIT:
a reworded summary
i want to start MULTIPLE applications after one click on a link or a button like element. I want to achieve that with starting applications associated to custom protocols ... i would hold a list of links (in each link there is one protocol used) and i would try to do "location.src = link" for all items of the list. Which when used with 'for' does optimize to assigning only once (the last value) so i make the function something like recursive function with delay (which eliminates the optimization and really forces 3 distinct calls of location.src = list[head] when the list gets sliced before each call so that all the links are taken into account and they are assigned to the location.src. This all works just fine in Mozilla Firefox, but in google, after the first assignment the rest of the assignments lose effect (they are probably performed but dont trigger the associated application launch))

Are you having trouble looping through the elements? if so try the for..in statement here
Or are you having trouble navigating? if so try window.location.assign(new_location);
[edit]
You can also use window.location = "...";
[edit]
Ok so I did some work, and here is what I got. in the example I open a random ace of spades link. which is a custom protocol. click here and then click on the "click me". The comments show where the JSFiddle debugger found errors.