Kent C. Dodds 5/1/2021

Array reduce vs chaining vs for loop

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The author discusses a personal script for reorganizing photos, which sparked online debate about using array reduce for performance vs. method chaining (map, filter) for readability. The article argues that for one-off scripts, code clarity is more important than micro-optimizations, and provides code examples comparing the different approaches.

Array reduce vs chaining vs for loop

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