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Map and Set in JavaScript for Humans

Would you like to hear more about Set and Map objects in JavaScript?

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Set in JavaScript ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ“Œ It's not key/value like the Object type. Keys are just values exposed

๐Ÿ“Œ Don't accept duplicated values

๐Ÿ“Œ It's iterable with forEarch method and for...of

๐Ÿ“Œ Conceptually is similar to []

๐Ÿ’ก Set is useful to remove duplicates on [].


Map in JavaScript ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ“Œ Allow/preserve any key type. Even objects

๐Ÿ“Œ Don't expose insecure data properties

๐Ÿ“Œ Iterate with forEarch method and for...of

๐Ÿ“Œ Stay the insertion order doesn't matter the type

๐Ÿ’ก Prefer Map instead of {} for client-side data manipulation.


Thoughts on Map, Set, {}, and [] in JavaScript ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ“Œ Each has a specific usage in JS

๐Ÿ“Œ Use {} for data traffic from the server.

๐Ÿ“Œ Set helps apply omit, diff, etc. on []

๐Ÿ“Œ Map return size. {} don't return size

๐Ÿ—ฃ There's not a silver bullet. Use them carefully.


๐Ÿ˜‰ Hope that you now understand better such useful objects on JavaScript, they are highly valuable, and master them will make you a better JavaScript Developer.

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