Rediscovering JavaScript: ES6, ES7 & ES8/

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Solution Review: Maps

Solution Review: Maps

Learn the solution to the Maps challenge.

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Solution

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'use strict';
const createTodo = function() {
  const todo = new Map();
  todo.set('learn JavaScript', 'done');
  todo.set('write elegant code', 'work-in-progress');
  todo.set('automate tests', 'work-in-progress');
  
  return todo;
}; 
const completedCount = function(map) {
  return [...map.values()]
    .filter(value => value === 'done')
    .length;
};
const todo = createTodo(); //Returns a Map
console.log(todo.get('learn JavaScript')); //'done'
console.log(todo.get('write elegant code'));//'work-in-progress'
console.log(todo.get('automate tests'));//'work-in-progress'
console.log(completedCount(todo)); //1

Explanation

We needed to implement the Map data structure to get the exercise code running.

Map object

Let’s start by creating a map element. The Map object, todo, is created using the new keyword, as seen at line 4. Here, we are ...