JavaScript Interview Questions & Answers

Question 1: Ensure

Implement the ensure function so that it throws an error if called without arguments or the argument is undefined. Otherwise it should return the given value.

Starting code:

function ensure(value) {

}

Solution:

function ensure(value) {
  if (value !== undefined) return value;
  throw 'Error';
}

Question 2: Remove Property

Implement the removeProperty function which takes an object and property name, and does the following:

If the object obj has a property prop, the function removes the property from the object and returns true; in all other cases it returns false.

Starting code:

function removeProperty(obj, prop) {
  return null;
}

Solution:

function removeProperty(obj, prop) {
  return (Object.keys(obj).indexOf(prop) > -1) ? delete obj[prop] : false;
}

Question 3: Check Digit

Your company assigns each customer a membership ID, and you are implementing a check digit for those IDs.

The check digit should be calculated by adding up all digits in each membership ID. If the result of the sum is a number with more than a single digit, another iteration is required, and the digits of the result also should be added together. This process should repeat until a single-digit number is calculated.

For example, for the membership ID "55555" the sum of all digits is 25. Because this is not a single-digit number, 2 and 5 would be added, and the result, 7, would be the check digit.

Starting code:

/**
 * @prop {string} membershipId: The customer's membership ID.
 * @return {number} The check digit.
 */
function createCheckDigit(membershipId) {
  // Write the code that goes here.
  return 0;
}

console.log(createCheckDigit("55555"));

Solution:

/**
 * @prop {string} membershipId: The customer's membership ID.
 * @return {number} The check digit.
 */
function createCheckDigit(membershipId) {
  let sumMembershipId = aggregator(membershipId);
  while (parseInt(sumMembershipId) > 9) sumMembershipId = aggregator(sumMembershipId);
  return sumMembershipId;
}

function aggregator(strMembershipId) {
  return strMembershipId.toString().split('').reduce((a, b) => parseInt(a) + parseInt(b), 0);
}

console.log(createCheckDigit("55555"));

Question 4: Date

Write a function that converts user entered date formatted as M/D/YYYY to a format required by an API (YYYYMMDD). The parameter "userDate" and the return value are strings.

For example, it should convert user entered date "12/31/2014" to "20141231" suitable for the API.

Starting code:

function formatDate(userDate) {
  // format from M/D/YYYY to YYYYMMDD
}

console.log(formatDate("12/31/2014"));

Solution:

function formatDate(userDate) {
  const x = userDate.split('/');
  return `${x[2]}${x[1]}${x[0]}`;
}

console.log(formatDate("12/31/2014"));

Question 5: Image Gallery

An image gallery is a set of images with corresponding remove buttons. This is the HTML code for a gallery with two images:

<div class="image">
  <img src="https://goo.gl/kjzfbE" alt="First">
  <button class="remove">X</button>
</div>
<div class="image">
  <img src="https://goo.gl/d2JncW" alt="Second">
  <button class="remove">X</button>
</div>

Implement the setup function that registers a click event handler and implements the following logic: When the button of class remove is clicked, its parent

element should be removed from the gallery.

For example, after the first image has been removed from the gallery above, it's HTML code should look like this:

<div class="image">
  <img src="https://goo.gl/d2JncW" alt="Second">
  <button class="remove">X</button>
</div>

Starting code:

function setup() {
  // Write your code here.
}

// Example case. 
document.body.innerHTML = `
<div class="image">
  <img src="https://goo.gl/kjzfbE" alt="First">
  <button class="remove">X</button>
</div>
<div class="image">
  <img src="https://goo.gl/d2JncW" alt="Second">
  <button class="remove">X</button>
</div>`;

setup();

document.getElementsByClassName("remove")[0].click();
console.log(document.body.innerHTML);

Solution:

function setup() {
  var items = document.getElementsByClassName("remove");
  for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
    items[i].addEventListener('click', function removeParentDiv() {
      this.parentNode.remove();
    });
  }
}

// Example case. 
document.body.innerHTML = `
<div class="image">
  <img src="https://goo.gl/kjzfbE" alt="First">
  <button class="remove">X</button>
</div>
<div class="image">
  <img src="https://goo.gl/d2JncW" alt="Second">
  <button class="remove">X</button>
</div>`;

setup();

document.getElementsByClassName("remove")[0].click();
console.log(document.body.innerHTML);

Question 6: Closures

Fix the bugs in the registerHandlers function. An alert should display anchor's zero-based index within a document instead of following the link.

For example, in the document below, the alert should display "2" when Google anchor is clicked since it is the third anchor element in the document and its zero-based index is 2.

<body>
  In my life, I used the following web search engines:<br/>
  <a href="//www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.altavista.com">AltaVista</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.google.com">Google</a><br/>
</body>

Starting code:

function registerHandlers() {
  var as = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
  for (var i = 0; i < as.length; i++) {
    as[i].onclick = function() {
      alert(i);
      return false;
    }
  }
}

/* HTML code for testing purposes (do not submit uncommented):
<body>
  In my life, I used the following web search engines:<br/>
  <a href="//www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.altavista.com">AltaVista</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.google.com">Google</a><br/>
</body>
*/

Solution:

function registerHandlers() {
  var as = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
  for (var i = 0; i < as.length; i++) {
    as[i].onclick = function(i) {
      return function() {
        alert(i);
        return false;
      }
    }(i);
  }
}

/* HTML code for testing purposes (do not submit uncommented):
<body>
  In my life, I used the following web search engines:<br/>
  <a href="//www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.altavista.com">AltaVista</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.google.com">Google</a><br/>
</body>
*/

Question 7: Loop

Function appendChildren should add a new child div to each existing div. New divs should be decorated by calling decorateDiv.

For example, after appendChildren is executed, the following divs:

<div id="a">
  <div id="b">
  </div>
</div>

should take the following form (assuming decorateDiv does nothing):

<div id="a">
  <div id="b">
    <div></div>
  </div>
  <div></div>
</div>

Starting code:

function appendChildren(decorateDivFunction) {
  var allDivs = document.getElementsByTagName("div");

  for (var i = 0; i < allDivs.length; i++) {
    var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
    decorateDivFunction(newDiv);
    allDivs[i].appendChild(newDiv);
  }
}

// Example case. 
document.body.innerHTML = `
<div id="a">
  <div id="b">
  </div>
</div>`;

//appendChildren(function(div) {});
console.log(document.body.innerHTML);

Solution:

function appendChildren(decorateDivFunction) {
  var allDivs = [...document.getElementsByTagName("div")];
  for (var i = 0; i < allDivs.length; i++) {
    var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
    decorateDivFunction(newDiv);
    allDivs[i].appendChild(newDiv);
  }
}

// Example case. 
document.body.innerHTML = `
<div id="a">
  <div id="b">
  </div>
</div>`;

// appendChildren(function(div) {});
console.log(document.body.innerHTML);

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JavaScript Interview Questions & Answers

Question 1: Ensure

Question 2: Remove Property

Question 3: Check Digit

Question 4: Date

Question 5: Image Gallery

Question 6: Closures

Question 7: Loop