1# Val Town API: Find a val by handle and name
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3This val fetches itself via the [Val Town API](https://docs.val.town/api/reference)! Weird, right?
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1# Val Town API: Find a user by their handle
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3This demonstrates how to use the [Val Town API](https://docs.val.town/api/reference) to find a user.
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1# Val Town API Search
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3This demonstrates how to use the [Val Town API](https://docs.val.town/api/reference) to search for vals that mention "lodash".
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1# Creating a SHA-256 hash of a string
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3This example shows how you can hash a string using SHA-256 without using any NPM modules – just web standards! Adapted from an [example on MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto/digest).
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1# lit
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3[Lit](https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/server-usage/) is kind of like Google's answer to React: it's a little more reliant on browser APIs like custom elements and the shadow DOM, a little less 'magic', like using JSX.
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5This is an example of using Lit and rendering it straight to a string, which is something that's recently popular. It works pretty well, right off the bat: Lit provides nice ESM modules and a pretty smooth workflow!
3[QS](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/) is a pretty old module that you probably shouldn't use but it's still pretty heavily used.
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5In the very very early days there wasn't a built-in way in JavaScript to parse querystrings. So QS was born. But then, Node.js added a `querystring` module built-in. Then, JavaScript introduced [URLSearchParams](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams), which you should use whenever you want to parse or generate query strings.
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1# luxon
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3[Luxon](https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/?id=luxon) is, like [date-fns](https://www.val.town/v/tmcw.datefnsExample), a good option for formatting, parsing, and manipulating dates. It's more of a direct successor to [moment](https://www.val.town/v/tmcw.momentExample) and has a similar method-chain-oriented API rather than function-call oriented API like date-fns.
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5## Usage
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7## API
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9### Acquire a lock.
