when to use reduce and reduceRight?

Question

Can you describe this for me?

var arr, total;
arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
total = arr.reduce(function(previous, current) {
return previous + current;
});
// total         


        

Answer 1

The order for reduce is from left to right, and it's from right to left for reduceRight, as the following piece of code shows:

var arr = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"];

total1 = arr.reduce(function(prev, cur) {
    return prev + cur;
});

total2 = arr.reduceRight(function(prev, cur) {
    return prev + cur;
});

console.log(total1); // => 12345
console.log(total2); // => 54321