Chapter 2: Using Map, Set, WeakMap, WeakSet
by Kyle Pennell
This chapter examines four new ES6 collections and the benefits they provide.
Most major programming languages have several types of data collections. Python has lists, tuples, and dictionaries. Java has lists, sets, maps, queues. Ruby has hashes and arrays. JavaScript, up until now, had only arrays. Objects and arrays were the workhorses of JavaScript. ES6 introduces four new data structures that will add power and expressiveness to the language: Map, Set, WeakSet, and WeakMap.
Searching for the JavaScript HashMap
HashMaps, dictionaries, and hashes are several ways that various programming languages store key/value pairs, and these data structures are optimized for fast retrieval. ...
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