[1f60c]

I think GP was joking. A far more straightforward way to shorten text to a given length is:

  const shorten = (text, length) => text.substring(0, length);

[seanmcdirmid]

Probably way more efficient than relying on a side effect to a DOM update as well.

[_0w8t]

But it is the Web. Somebody must be using it.