Taking Lodash off the Down Low for New Devs

Another Tool for Your Javascript Belt

What is Lodash?

Let’s talk about one of the most popular and heavily downloaded npm packages. Lodash is a JavaScript library that provides built in functions for common programming tasks by using a functional programming paradigm; it builds upon the older underscore.js library. The Lodash built-in utility functions make coding in JavaScript easier and cleaner. Instead of writing common repetitive functions, the task can be accomplished with a single line of code after importing the package.

Installation is Easy

Lodash can be installed via NPM or Yarn:

npm install --save lodash

After installation is complete, Lodash can be imported into a JavaScript file as:

import _ from "lodash"

Now, all of Lodash’s functions can be accessed by the underscore operator.

Here’s an example using the _.concat() function, more about that shorty

let arr = ['dog', 'cat', 'bird', 'hamster']