ES6 - generate an array of numbers

Answer 1

A tour of Array.from thru practical examples

Array.from also accepts a second argument which is used as a mapping function

let out = Array.from(Array(10), (_,x) => x);
console.log(out);
// [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

This is nice to know because you might want to generate arrays that are sometimes more complex than just 0 thru N.

const sq = x => x * x;
let out = Array.from(Array(10), (_,x) => sq(x));
console.log(out);
// [0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]

Or you can make arrays out of generators, too

function* range(start, end, step) {
  while (start < end) {
    yield start;
    start += step;
  }
}

let out = Array.from(range(10,20,2));

console.log(out); // [10, 12, 14, 16, 18]

Array.from is just massively powerful. People don't even realize its full potential yet.

const ord = x => x.charCodeAt(0);
const dec2hex = x => `0${x.toString(16)}`.substr(-2);

// common noob code
{
  let input = "hello world";
  let output = input.split('').map(x => dec2hex(ord(x)));
  
  console.log(output);
  // ["68", "65", "6c", "6c", "6f", "20", "77", "6f", "72", "6c", "64"]
}

// Array.from
{
  let input = "hello world";
  let output = Array.from(input, x => dec2hex(ord(x)));
  
  console.log(output);
  // ["68", "65", "6c", "6c", "6f", "20", "77", "6f", "72", "6c", "64"]
}