Basic JavaScript - Stand in Line

[EricNC0]

Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

Your code so far

function nextInLine(arr, item) {
  // Only change code below this line
  arr.push(5)
  arr.unshift(1)
  


  
  return item;
  // Only change code above this line
}

// Setup
const testArr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];

// Display code
console.log("Before: " + JSON.stringify(testArr));
console.log(nextInLine(testArr, 6));
console.log("After: " + JSON.stringify(testArr));

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Stand in Line

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[Muzzammmill]

Try this:

function nextInLine(arr, item) {
  // Only change code below this line
  arr.push(item);
  const removed = arr.shift();
  return removed;
  // Only change code above this line
}

[EricNC0]

Do you just do this challenge?

[Muzzammmill]

Did it work?

No, I did it earlier.

[EricNC0]

It worked but has two step what are really dificult for me

• nextInLine([2], 1) should return 2

• Failed:nextInLine([5,6,7,8,9], 1) should return 5

[Muzzammmill]

• Test nextInLine([2,1]); runs.
• The nextInLine function is called. arr becomes [2]. item becomes 1.
• arr.push(item); Pushes 1 to [2]. So arr is now [2,1].
• const removed = arr.shift(); removes the first element. So arr is now [1]. 2 has been removed and is stored in removed.
• return removed; 2 is returned.

Note: You don’t actually need the variable removed. The element removed can be returned directly using return arr.shift();.

[Muzzammmill]

Found the explanation here:

freeCodeCamp Challenge Guide: Stand in Line

Stand in Line Hints Hint 1 The push() method adds an item to the end of an array. Hint 2 The shift() method removes the first element of an array. It also returns the element removed. Hint 3 The function nextInLine uses arr and item. Those are what the tests will use to pass the array elements they will test with. It allows the function to be reusable. Do not hardcode any of the tests inside the function. Solutions

Solution 1 (Click to Show/Hide)

function nextInLine(arr, item) { // …

[EricNC0]

Very very thank you, i do and result thanks @Muzzammmill

[EricNC0]

Done i do this
right now
Thanks

[Ominous420]

I can’t figure out why my code is not passing. I have tried everything and can’t see why I’m not passing any tests. Here is my code:

function nextInLine(arr, item) {
// Only change code below this line
arr.push(item);
arr.shift();
return arr.shift();
// Only change code above this line
}

// Setup
let testArr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];

// Display code
console.log("Before: " + JSON.stringify(testArr));
console.log(nextInLine(testArr, 6));
console.log("After: " + JSON.stringify(testArr));

None of the tests pass, so I’m getting all errors.

[Ominous420]

Nevermind. I figured it out.

[Basilica]

how did you figure it out. I’m hooked on this too

[hbar1st]

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Thank you.

[Ominous420]

For me, the js page in the index folder was linked incorrectly.