Hello 👋

I am Vinit Shahdeo, a Software Engineer from India. Yesterday on 15^th August, India celebrated its 74^th Independence Day. At midnight, I got an idea to write a code in JavaScript(Node.js) to generate the Map Of India. I've already seen code snippets in C/C++ which do the same but found nothing using JavaScript so far. With this spirit, I opened VSCode and started smashing my keys and finally ended up having a Node.js script to generate the Map of India.

Vinit Shahdeo

@vinit_shahdeo

👋 Happy Independence 🇮🇳 Day!

Here's something which I hacked last night - a @nodejs script to print #MapOfIndia in the terminal!

❤️ RTs are most welcome! 🤗

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04:15 AM - 15 Aug 2020

In this article, I'm trying to explain the obfuscated code which does the magic.

const MAGIC_STRING = "TFy!QJu ROo TNn(ROo)SLq SLq ULo+UHs UJq TNn*RPn/QPbEWS_JSWQAIJO^NBELPeHBFHT}TnALVlBLOFAkHFOuFETpHCStHAUFAgcEAelclcn^r^r\\tZvYxXyT|S~Pn SPm SOn TNn ULo0ULo#ULo-WHq!WFs XDt!"

The above encoded string is basically a binary sequence converted to ASCII in which alternating characters stores how many times to draw space and how many times to draw an exclamation mark(!).

Here's the link to the GitHub repository.

npm install && npm start

cd src && cat index.js

cd republic\ day
node index.js

         .--,_
        ['    '\
         \       `''|
         |         ,]
          `._      ].
            |     \
          _/       -'\
         ,'          ,'
       _/'          \                     ,..-''L_
  |--''              '-;__        |\     /      .,'
   \                      `--.__,'_ '----     ,-'
   `\                             \`-'\__    ,|
,--;/                             /     .| ,/
\__                               '|    /  / 

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