Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

Creating a reference generator for a job portal

In this example, we will create a reference generator for a job portal. For instance, we have a few users who are friends with each other, we will create nodes for each of the users and associate each of the nodes with data, such as their name and the company at which they work.

Once we create all these nodes, we will join them based on some predefined relationships between the nodes. Then, we will use these predefined relationships to determine who a user would have to talk to to get referred for a job interview at a company of their choice. For example, A who works at company X and B who works at company Y are friends, B and C who works at company Z are friends. So, if A wants to get referred ...