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Learn ECMAScript

You're reading from   Learn ECMAScript Discover the latest ECMAScript features in order to write cleaner code and learn the fundamentals of JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788620062
Length 298 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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MEHUL MOHAN MEHUL MOHAN
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Preface 1. Getting Started with ECMAScript 2. Knowing Your Library FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Iterators 4. Asynchronous Programming 5. Modular Programming 6. Implementing the Reflect API 7. Proxies 8. Classes 9. JavaScript on the Web 10. Storage APIs in JavaScript 11. Web and Service Workers 12. Shared Memory and Atomics 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

The iteration protocol

An iteration protocol is a set of rules that an object needs to follow for implementing the interface. When this protocol is used, a loop or a construct can iterate over a group of values of the object.

JavaScript has two iteration protocols known as the iterator protocol and the iterable protocol.

The iterator protocol

Any object that implements the iterator protocol is known as an iterator. According to the iterator protocol, an object needs to provide a next() method that returns the next item in the sequence of a group of items.
Here is an example to demonstrate this:

let obj = {
array: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
nextIndex: 0,
next: function() {
return this.nextIndex < this.array.length...
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