Discussion on: Top 20 JavaScript tips and tricks to increase your Speed and Efficiency

[Martin Muzatko]

min: Math.min(...numbers)
max: Math.max(...numbers)

[Kapil Raghuwanshi🖥]

Thanks for reminding this tip @martinmuzatko .

const array = [4,5,7,2,3];
Math.min(...array)
// Output: 2
Math.max(...array)
// Output: 7

[FredDev]

Please what tool is used to make this code snippet embedment on the pages?

[Kapil Raghuwanshi🖥]

These are just code test only. Use 3 backticks before and after your code. Check the preview.

[Thomas Smith]

Exactly, not sure of the advantage of using reduce over these common functions.

[Andrew Bridge]

I'd go further and agree with this thread and follow up video that advise against using reduce in nearly every situation. It's often used when a simpler or more readable alternative is available, and leads to harder to read, harder to maintain code. As proven with this example above.

[liquorburn]

I've made a simple benchmark, it seems that reduce() is faster than Math.max()

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[Kapil Raghuwanshi🖥]

That's awesome @liquorburn . I have added the fastest one only.

[Thomas Smith]

It's actually the spread operator that's taking the time there. Though admittedly, there aren't many cases you'd have a hardcoded list of values to find the max of, it's worth pointing out.

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[Kapil Raghuwanshi🖥]

Well, of course above methods seems simpler for finding min/max but one should not underestimate the power of reduce in JavaScript. There are several technique where you can solve problems mostly in one reduce statements only.

[Wilhelm Erasmus]

But in this case a helper method that does the full job exists so why bother with reduce for this use case? I admittedly do not use it enough but just saying