Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

Summary

In this chapter, we took some real-world challenges head-on and created some custom solutions based on the problem at hand. This is one of the most important takeaways from this chapter. Rarely would you find a scenario where an ideal solution is readily available. We took up one of the graph theories algorithms, known as BFS, and leveraged it to our advantage in generating the recommendations for our job portal and user suggestions. We also briefly discussed PageRank algorithm, which any developer should be familiar with. That brings the question of why and when to use one algorithm over the other. What are the pros and cons of choosing an algorithm? This will be the topic for our next chapter, where we will do an analysis of the ...