How to early break reduce() method?

Question

How can I break the iteration of reduce() method?

for:

for (var i = Things.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
  if(Things[i] <=         


        

Answer 1

As the promises have resolve and reject callback arguments, I created the reduce workaround function with the break callback argument. It takes all the same arguments as native reduce method, except the first one is an array to work on (avoid monkey patching). The third [2] initialValue argument is optional. See the snippet below for the function reducer.

var list = ["w","o","r","l","d"," ","p","i","e","r","o","g","i"];

var result = reducer(list,(total,current,index,arr,stop)=>{
  if(current === " ") stop(); //when called, the loop breaks
  return total + current;
},'hello ');

console.log(result); //hello world

function reducer(arr, callback, initial) {
  var hasInitial = arguments.length >= 3;
  var total = hasInitial ? initial : arr[0];
  var breakNow = false;
  for (var i = hasInitial ? 0 : 1; i < arr.length; i++) {
    var currentValue = arr[i];
    var currentIndex = i;
    var newTotal = callback(total, currentValue, currentIndex, arr, () => breakNow = true);
    if (breakNow) break;
    total = newTotal;
  }
  return total;
}

And here is the reducer as an Array method modified script:

Array.prototype.reducer = function(callback,initial){
  var hasInitial = arguments.length >= 2;
  var total = hasInitial ? initial : this[0];
  var breakNow = false;
  for (var i = hasInitial ? 0 : 1; i < this.length; i++) {
    var currentValue = this[i];
    var currentIndex = i;
    var newTotal = callback(total, currentValue, currentIndex, this, () => breakNow = true);
    if (breakNow) break;
    total = newTotal;
  }
  return total;
};

var list = ["w","o","r","l","d"," ","p","i","e","r","o","g","i"];

var result = list.reducer((total,current,index,arr,stop)=>{
  if(current === " ") stop(); //when called, the loop breaks
  return total + current;
},'hello ');


console.log(result);