how to edit node fields programmatically

another stub. I hope I will have time to write out the many stubs I authored in the past days, lol.

so this one is about editing node fields from code. code maybe from a custom module, as described in another stub!

2 links:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52822719/drupal-8-updating-node-programmatically-does-not-update-the-state-of-the-node-i

http://www.drupal8.ovh/en/tutoriels/65/update-a-node-entity-programmatically-drupal-8