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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Third Edition
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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Third Edition

by Loiane Avancini
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
426 pages
10h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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The JavaScript functional toolbox – map, filter, and reduce

The map, filter, and reduce functions (which you learned about in Chapter 3, Arrays) are the base of functional programming in JavaScript.

Using the map function, we can transform or map a collection of data into another collection of data. Let's take a look at an example using imperative programming:

const daysOfWeek = [ 
  {name: 'Monday', value: 1}, 
  {name: 'Tuesday', value: 2}, 
  {name: 'Wednesday', value: 7} 
]; 
 
let daysOfWeekValues_ = []; 
for (let i = 0; i < daysOfWeek.length; i++) { 
  daysOfWeekValues_.push(daysOfWeek[i].value); 
} 

Now let's consider the same example using functional programming with ES2015+ syntax, as follows:

const daysOfWeekValues = daysOfWeek.map(day => day.value); ...
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