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Lab: Merge Users

Overview

Scenario: You are working for a social media company that has just merged with another. You are tasked with creating a function that takes an undetermined amount of arrays of username and merges them into one larger array to keep track of all the users on your merged website. You will also want to create a date of merging and return that combined with the merged array as an object

Estimated Completion Time: 30-60 minutes

Tools and Resources

• Tools: Visual Studio Code (VSCode), Node.js
• Resources: MDN Web Docs
• Setup: Fork and clone the provided GitHub repository, and run npm install to set up the project locally.

Instructions

1. Fork and Clone the Repository:

   • Go to the provided GitHub repository link.
   • Fork the repository to your GitHub account.
   • Clone the forked repository to your local machine.
   • Open the project in VSCode.
   • Run npm install to install all necessary dependencies.

2. Create a combineUsers function:

   • Create a function named combineUsers and assign the following arguments:
     • ...args (a rest argument) Containing an indeterminite amount of arrays
       • args will take the form of an array of array
       • Each internal array are arrays of usernames (strings)

3. Initialize return object

   • Inside combineUsers define the variable combinedObject (object).
     • Initialize with a key of users with the value []

4. Loop through args

   • Loop through args to isolate each array

5. Merge arrays

   • Using a spread operator merge arrays together into the users attribute of combinedObject

6. Get todays date

   • Add an attribute to combinedObject called merge_date and using datejs give it the current date
     • In datejs give it the format of M/d/yyyy
     • Don't forget to npm install and to add require('datejs') outside of combineUsers (datejs is already in package.json)

7. Return object

   • return combinedObject