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Michal Bryxí
Michal Bryxí

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JavaScript braces quiz

#es6 #javascript #quiz

My favourite example of a perfectly valid JavaScript code that shows all the weird stuff that's possible to do with braces, parentheses and few of the ES6 syntax additions:

let a = 1;
let b = 10;
let c = 100;

({ b: a = ++c } = (({ b: c = a } = { c: { b: ++a } }) => ({ b: ++c }))({ b: ++c }));

console.log(a, b, c);
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Quite an extreme interview question if you ask me. But can you figure out, using just your head, what will be the output in the terminal?

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Peter Vivo •

Nice quiz

// at first remove outer dependency:

let quiz = (a, b, c) => ({ b: a = ++c } = (({ b: c = a } = { c: { b: ++a } }) => ({ b: ++c }))({ b: ++c }));

// I tested:

let strictEqual = (first, ...rest) => !rest.find( result => JSON.stringify(result) !== JSON.stringify(first))


strictEqual( quiz(1, 10, 100) , quiz(2, 28, 100) ) // true

// so my solution is:

 let solution = n => ({b:+n+2})

// test

strictEqual(quiz(1, 10, 100), quiz(null, null, 100), solution(100) )

strictEqual(quiz(1, 10, 'one'), quiz(undefined, null, 'one'), solution('one') )
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