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How to detect keyboard presses made to the browser screen with JavaScript

When you are building a browser-based game, being able to track key presses is helpful.

For this purpose, you can register a JavaScript function that gets called when the browser detects a key is being pressed.

After the browser detects a key press, it will send information about the key to your function.

When your function is able to get the key that is pressed, it can then use this information to update the game state.

In this post, let’s look at how we can detect keyboard presses made to the browser screen with JavaScript.