In the previous “Data Structures in JavaScript” discussion, we walked through the methodology used to construct a node class which represent each “link” in the “chain” that is a linked list. From there we discussed how to construct a singly linked list from a an array. Building on the previous discussion, we will now dive into editing that singly linked list. If you are not familiar with the code and terminology covered in the previous article it is recommended you review Building a Singly Linked List.

With a linked list there are three ways to edit the list: update a nodes data property, add a node to the list or delete a node from the list. In all these cases, we will want to access a specific place in the singly linked list. Depending on the situation, you might want to edit the nth node from the head of the list, the nth node from the end of the list, or a node of a particular data value. For this discussion, we will assume that we are interested in editing the nth Node from the head of the list. With this in mind, we can step through a singly linked list from the head to the nth a node using a simple for loop as shown in Figure 1.

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