Cant really understand what's going under closetab

JavaScript
#1

Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


// tabs is an array of titles of each site open within the window
var Window = function(tabs) {
  this.tabs = tabs; // we keep a record of the array inside the object
};

// When you join two windows into one window
Window.prototype.join = function (otherWindow) {
  this.tabs = this.tabs.concat(otherWindow.tabs);
  return this;
};

// When you open a new tab at the end
Window.prototype.tabOpen = function (tab) {
  this.tabs.push('new tab'); // let's open a new tab for now
  return this;
};

// When you close a tab
Window.prototype.tabClose = function (index) {
  var tabsBeforeIndex = this.tabs.splice(0, index); // get the tabs before the tab
  var tabsAfterIndex = this.tabs.splice(index); // get the tabs after the tab

  this.tabs = tabsBeforeIndex.concat(tabsAfterIndex); // join them together 
  return this;
 };

// Let's create three browser windows
var workWindow = new Window(['GMail', 'Inbox', 'Work mail', 'Docs', 'freeCodeCamp']); // Your mailbox, drive, and other work sites
var socialWindow = new Window(['FB', 'Gitter', 'Reddit', 'Twitter', 'Medium']); // Social sites
var videoWindow = new Window(['Netflix', 'YouTube', 'Vimeo', 'Vine']); //  Entertainment sites

// Now perform the tab opening, closing, and other operations
var finalTabs = socialWindow
                    .tabOpen() // Open a new tab for cat memes
                    .join(videoWindow.tabClose(2)) // Close third tab in video window, and join
                    .join(workWindow.tabClose(1).tabOpen());

alert(finalTabs.tabs);

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.109 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/functional-programming/understand-the-hazards-of-using-imperative-code

#2

It’s removing something from the middle of the array. If you know you are removing something from the beginning or end of an array you can do it easily with shift and pop, but to remove it from the middle, you have to create two subarrays (one before the removed element and one after) and then join them together.

Imagine removing a car from a train. As you pull that one out, you’ll have two sub-trains. Then you join them together. The slight difference here is that you have to “create” new copies of those sub-arrays, with the splice method (there’s also an ES6 way to do it, but don’t worry about that for now.)

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