Discussion on: JavaScript Quiz Part 2

[Avalander]

1.How to reverse a String Using Reduce Method.

const reverseStr = str =>
    (str.split('')
        .reduce((prev, c) => ([ c, ...prev ]), [])
        .join(''))

3.How to convert an object into a string?

Kinda depends on what you want.

const pony = {
    name: 'Twilight Sparkle',
    type: 'Unicorn',
    element: 'Magic',
}

// Option A because nothing beats '[object Object]' as a string representation
pony.toString() // '[object Object]'

// Option B
JSON.stringify(pony) // '{"name": "Twilight Sparkle", "type": "Unicorn", "element": "Magic"}'

// Option C
pony.toString = function () {
    return `${this.name}, ${this.type}, ${this.element}`
}
pony.toString() // 'Twilight Sparkle, Unicorn, Magic'

// Option D
pony.inspect = function () {
    return `Pony(${this.name}, ${this.type}, ${this.element})`
}
pony.inspect() // 'Pony(Twilight Sparkle, Unicorn, Magic)'

// Option E because why not
pony.toString = function () {
    return `${this.name}, ${this.type}, ${this.element}`
}
pony + '' // 'Twilight Sparkle, Unicorn, Magic'

[ItsASine (Kayla)]

Slight error in your example: Twilight is an Alicorn. Source ❤️

[Avalander]

Haha, good catch! I'd update my post but I'm too lazy, so let's say I'm referencing the first season.

[Florian Reuschel]

Interesting fact for completeness: The JSON counterpart of toString() is toJSON(). If an object has a toJSON() method, it will be evaluated and its result will be stringified instead:

pony.toJSON = function () {
  return this.name
}

JSON.stringify(pony) === '"Twighlight Sparkle"'

[Avalander]

Nice! I wasn't aware of that!

Then we could potentially override that method to get [object Object] when converting it to JSON.

pony.toJSON = function () {
    return this.toString()
}

JSON.stringify(pony) // '[object Object]'

[Florian Reuschel]

That sounds... useful? 🙈
But yeah, it's a feature that I as well only discovered after many years of JS experience and since have never used in production. It's pretty cool though.

[Florian Reuschel]

Oh, and also the result would in fact be "[object Object]". The quotes are part of the serialized result (since it needs to be valid JSON).

[Avalander]

That sounds... useful? 🙈

I mean, the specification is that the object gets converted to a string. About the actual content of the string, the OP said nothing 😝