When manipulating strings in JavaScript, it is often necessary to perform certain functions to escape characters, decode them, and perform other string manipulations. JavaScript makes it easy to modify the String prototype, making it possible to create new methods on String types. As of late, I’ve preferred this method (pun intended) over creating custom functions.

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Sometimes it may be useful to remove stop words from strings, when parsing data in JavaScript. I found myself in that situation with a recent project. I looked around for a String method to do this, but didn’t have much luck, so I wrote my own.

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