Articles Tagged reduce

Writing asynchronous JavaScript without using the Promise object is a lot like baking a cake with your eyes closed. It can be done, but it's gonna be messy and you'll probably end up burning yourself.

I won't say it's necessary, but you get the idea. It's real nice. Sometimes, though, it needs a little help to solve some unique challenges, like when you're trying to sequentially resolve a bunch of promises in order, one after the other. A trick … Read article

I was recently mentoring someone who had trouble with the .reduce() method in JavaScript. Namely, how you get from this:

const nums = [1, 2, 3]
let value = 0

for (let i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
  value += nums[i]
}

...to this:

const nums = [1, 2, 3]
const value = nums.reduce((ac, next) => ac + next, 0)

They are functionally equivalent and they both sum up all the numbers in the array, but there is … Read article