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Kirt Perez
7,374 PointsUnderstanding the use of the map method in this video
I see that Guil has used the map method to iterate through the functions he has created. But I have to question why he used it. Since we used .map, and it creates a whole new array, what exactly are we going to do with this "array". We created an array that is not being accessed in other parts. I can see how this calls for less lines of code but I'm just curious to see what the left out array would have use for as opposed to a regular loop that is iterating throughout the objects array length.
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Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,075 PointsYou are correct, as an example of map, this is unfortunately a very poor use-case and actually demonstrates an anti-pattern. For...of or forEach were better alternatives for this. Now at the end of the day nothing is actually going to happen because of this, garbage collection will take care of that unused array, it's just not a good practice to do so.
JASON LEE
17,351 PointsYeah it's adding a .map method on top of an already complex topic.
instead of ---
json.people.map( person => {
getJSON(wikiUrl + person.name, generateHTML );
});
replace with ---
for (let i = 0; i < json.people.length; i++) {
getJSON(wikiUrl + json.people[i].name, generateHTML);
}