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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript Write efficient code that is highly performant, scalable, and easily testable using JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788398558
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kashyap Mukkamala Kashyap Mukkamala
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Creating a queue

Of the four types of the queue that we have discussed earlier, first, we will implement a simple queue and then move on to modify it for each type of the subsequent queue.

A simple queue

Similar to a stack, we will create a queue using the following steps:

  1. Define a constructor():
class Queue {
constructor() {

}
}
  1. We will be using WeakMap() for in-memory data storage just like we did for stacks: 
    const qKey = {};
const items = new WeakMap();

class Queue {
constructor() {

}
}
  1. Implement the methods described previously in the API:
var Queue = (() => {
const qKey = {};
const items = new WeakMap();

class Queue {

constructor() {
...
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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788398558
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