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@bmike That's great! I think it's a good way deal with a lot of the questions we get here. :)

@grgarside Hey, thanks for answering the question on JXA.

I am just wetting my feet here, could you recommend some resources I could look into for javascript automation?

@Vinny Hi, I answered the question purely using my knowledge of JavaScript rather than anything specific to JXA. Are you familiar with JavaScript and looking for JXA resources, or would JavaScript resources be a priority first?

@ grgarside Hey. I am learning Javascript on Codacademy right now. JXA doesn't seem to have much resources

@Monomeeth thank @patrix too as he did most of the work to get it ready to roll

@bmike Ah, well, I was thanking both of you really! :) Thanks @patrix for your efforts, and thanks @Tetsujin for initiating the conversation on Meta. Good job everyone! :)

Agreed. I’m grateful for your moderation duties here and @Tetsujin and George and a few others that really keep this place improving.

Nice one chaps :)

Do we need to add the defining 'this is what we did' answer so there's one that can get the shiny tick-mark, or is it good enough as it stands?

Ugh - what do we do with this situation? apple.stackexchange.com/questions/286939/…

tbh, the new close-hammer ability still surprises me when it happens.

hmm.. forget that, he binned the dupe & added to the original as a comment :/

Hi @grgarside! In this question apple.stackexchange.com/questions/203082/… , you suggested to run killall with these options: -HUP, could you please tell me what these options do? the man page for killall doesn't provide the answer. (I'm just being genuinely curious)

@AntonK apple.stackexchange.com/questions/103610/ddg#103614

@Tetsujin Close as a duplicate and add a comment, as you did

@patrix fantastic! thank you

@Vinny Apologies for the delay (the space between the at and the username breaks the ping), here's a few resources I use:

- JXA official introduction document from Apple

- Cookbook

- WWDC session for JSA

@AntonK The link from patrix is spot on, but referring specifically to the Dock process, -HUP should cause a restart of the process. The launch daemon responsible for the Dock should restart the process anyway, so including -HUP is not required, but this took a while in older versions of macOS. That answer is quite old, feel free to omit nowadays.

@Tetsujin It's only taken 3 years! /s

:38141768 Just fyi, you can edit your last comment immediately by pressing the up key, or by clicking the arrow on the left of the message and choosing edit.

@grgarside thank you! I was using killall without any flags, and when I saw your answer, I thought I was missing out on something the whole time. Thank you again!