One of the features that landed in ECMAScript 2024 was the ability to group synchronous iterables (e.g. arrays) into objects or maps. Let's take a look!

In part two of this in-depth guide to JavaScript maps and sets we'll be looking at the weird, exotic world of weak maps. These are like maps, except the keys are always objects and the entries are "weakly held". We'll explore just what this means.

In this guide we'll be looking at JavaScript maps and sets. First up, maps, which are a sort of super object. They work like objects, but with some key differences and improvements - most notably, they have a reliable order and can accesspt any data type as keys!