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jun cheng wong
17,021 Pointsclarification on array.map()
btn.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
getJSON(astrosUrl, (json) => {
json.people.map( person => {
getJSON(wikiUrl + person.name, generateHTML);
})
});
event.target.remove();
});
.map() returns an array? What will happen without using it
1 Answer
Austin Whipple
29,725 PointsThe .map() method will create an array containing the results of the a function run on every item in the array on which .map() was called. In this case, .map() will iterate over all of the items in the people array and then run the getJSON() function every time, which then retrieves the JSON data and passes it on to the generateHTML() function.
WIthout the .map() method here, you could probably still achieve the same result, but you'd probably have to write a couple of loops to do so.
jun cheng wong
17,021 Pointsjun cheng wong
17,021 Pointsalright thank you