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  • higher order methods

Map

  • creates a new array by performing some action on each element
    • forEach does not do this , but you can just iterate though it
    • let a = num.forEach is not possible
    •   // Map Filter Reduce - higher order methos
        let arr = [45 , 23 , 44]
        console.log(arr)
        // Array Map method
        // .map creates new array .forEach modifies the same array
        let newarr = arr.map((value,index,array)=> {
            console.log(value,index,array) // index and array are optional args
            return value*value
        })
        console.log(newarr)
      

Filter

    • Does some filtering based on a function and makes new array
    •   // Filter
        let arr2 = [0,3,5,45,56,78]
        let newarr2 = arr2.filter((value)=> {
            return value<10
        })
        console.log(newarr2)
      

Reduce

  • Traverses through the array and returns smaller dimesion value
  •  // Reduce method
     let arr3  = [0,3,5,4,6,7]
     let newarr3 = arr3.reduce((value1,value2)=> {
         return value1 + value2
     // it takes first two values and runs the function and takes the output and runs on 3 element and continues
     })
     console.log(newarr3)
     const sum = (a,b) => {
         return a + b
     }
     console.log(arr3.reduce(sum)) // same as giving function inside