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"Implementing the Reduce Method in JavaScript: Line by Line Explanation"
Here's an implementation of the reduce
method in JavaScript with a brief description for each line of code:
phpCopy codefunction reduce(array, callback, initialValue) {
let accumulator = initialValue;
// Check if accumulator is provided, if not use first item in array as accumulator
if (accumulator === undefined) {
accumulator = array[0];
array = array.slice(1);
}
// Loop through the array and apply the callback
for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
accumulator = callback(accumulator, array[i], i, array);
}
return accumulator;
}
Line 1: Define the reduce
function that takes in an array, a callback, and an optional initial value.
Line 2: Define a variable accumulator
and initialize it with the initialValue
argument.
Line 5: Check if the accumulator
is undefined, and if so, set it to the first item in the array
and slice the first item off the array
.
Lines 8-11: Loop through the array
and apply the callback
to each item, updating the accumulator
with the result of each iteration.
Line 14: Return the final value of the accumulator
.