Adding the “Konami Code” to Your React App Using Hooks

Justin Travis Waith-Mair
Nov 5 · 6 min read
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Anyone who plays video games for any length of time will probably know of a cheat code of some sort. Cheat codes have existed for ages, but one of the most famous has got to be the “Konami Code” so named for the fact the code was accidentally left in production code in the game Gradius, which was published by the Konami game company. To input the code, one simply entered the following keys in…

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