What is array reduceRight() in Javascript?

reduceRight() is a higher-order function that accumulates or reduces all the values in an array to a single value through the application of a binary function to each of the values, starting from right to left.

reduceRight() is useful when the order of operation on the array does matter. However, if the operation is commutative, then one may simply use the reduce() function instead.

Prototype

array.reducRight((accumulator, currentValue, index, array)=>{}, initialValue)

Parameters

• callbackfn: The callback function that is executed on each of the values in the array. callbackfn takes in 4 additional arguments:

  • accumulator: The accumulator holds the accumulated result of applying the callbackfn to the list. accumulator is initialized with initial Value if an initial value is supplied.
  • current value: The current value being processed in the array.
  • index (optional): The index of the current value being processed. The index starts from $0$ if the inital Value is provided, otherwise, it starts at $1$.
  • array (optional): The array on which reduce() is called upon.

• initalValue (optional): initialValue is used as the first value for the reduce() operation. If it is not supplied, then the first value at index $0$ is used as the accumulator.

Return value

reduce() returns the accumulated result of applying the function on each of the elements in the array.

Code

Here, we demonstrate the difference in the reduce() and reduceRight() functions. Since we used the division operation, which is non-commutative, the order of operation matters.

The reduce() function applies the division function from left to right while the reduceRight() operation goes from right to left, which gives a different result.