For a work project, I needed to include a wizard form with 2 questions on each page. To get the total page count, I divided the total number of questions by 2 and then rounded it off to the nearest integer. There were however some problems with that implementation and a more efficient solution was required.
My tech lead pointed out the usage of Array chunking. So this is how it works:
In the above, we define a function named Chunk which takes in 2 parameters: an original array and the chunk size.
Then, we define a temporary array called tempArray and let it be an empty array.
Subsequently, we use the Array.slice() method in a for loop. The slice()
method returns a shallow copy of a portion of an array into a new array object selected from begin
to end
(end
not included). The original array will not be modified.
Example:
var animals = ['ant', 'bison', 'camel', 'duck', 'elephant'];console.log(animals.slice(2));
// expected…