Using Reduce

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Reduce is used somewhat similar to ‘map’

const scores = [55,17,138,3,18];
const totalScore = scores.reduce(
  (previousScore,currentScore,index)=> previousScore + currentScore,0
);
console.log(totalScore); // returns 231

Zero is set as the initial value and then it goes through the array and adds each value (in this example the currentScore) to the totalScore which becomes the new ‘previousScore’.

Here’s a more useful example:

const refactoredUsers = [
  { id: 1, name: "Mark" },
  { id: 2, name: "James" },
  { id: 3, name: "Ben" }
].reduce((prev, currentUser) => {
  return {
    [currentUser.id]: currentUser.name,
    ...prev
  }
}, {})

console.log(refactoredUsers);

//returns 
{
  1: Mark,
  2: James,
  3: Ben
}

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Mark Wong is a front end developer with 10+ years experience. Most of his knowledge of HTML5, CSS and Js is self taught.

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