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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

By : Kashyap Mukkamala
Book Image

Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

By: Kashyap Mukkamala

Overview of this book

Data structures and algorithms are the fundamental building blocks of computer programming. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Using appropriate data structures and having a good understanding of algorithm analysis are key in JavaScript to solving crises and ensuring your application is less prone to errors. Do you want to build applications that are high-performing and fast? Are you looking for complete solutions to implement complex data structures and algorithms in a practical way? If either of these questions rings a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by building stacks and understanding performance and memory implications. You will learn how to pick the right type of queue for the application. You will then use sets, maps, trees, and graphs to simplify complex applications. You will learn to implement different types of sorting algorithm before gradually calculating and analyzing space and time complexity. Finally, you'll increase the performance of your application using micro optimizations and memory management. By the end of the book you will have gained the skills and expertise necessary to create and employ various data structures in a way that is demanded by your project or use case.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
5
Simplify Complex Applications Using Graphs
Index

Chapter 5. Simplify Complex Applications Using Graphs

The simplestway to define a graph would be anything that is a collection of nodes in which the nodes are connected by edges. Graphs are one of the most popular mathematical concepts that are used in computer science. Popular examples of graph implementations would be any social media website these days. Facebook use friends as nodes and friendship as edges; Twitter, on the other hand, defines followers as nodes and following as an edge, and so on. Take a look at the following image:

In the preceding image, you can see a typical graph with nodes and edges. As you can note, there are no directions listed out to our edges, and there are no details mentioned on our nodes. This is because there are different types of graphs, and the nodes and edges vary slightly between these different types of graphs, which we will see in the subsequent sections.

In this chapter, we will first go over the following topics:

  1. Types of graphs
  2. Creating a reference...