Master the essential data structures and algorithms in JavaScript, from arrays and strings to trees and graphs. Learn how to implement them and use them to solve problems. This repository contains JavaScript based examples of many popular algorithms and data structures.
A data structure is a particular way of organizing and storing data in a computer so that it can be accessed and modified efficiently. More precisely, a data structure is a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.
B - Beginner, A - Advanced
An algorithm is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems. It is a set of rules that precisely define a sequence of operations.
B - Beginner, A - Advanced
An algorithmic paradigm is a generic method or approach which underlies the design of a class of algorithms. It is an abstraction higher than the notion of an algorithm, just as an algorithm is an abstraction higher than a computer program.
Install all dependencies
npm install
Run ESLint
You may want to run it to check code quality.
npm run lint
Run all tests
npm test
Run tests by name
npm test -- 'LinkedList'
Troubleshooting
In case if linting or testing is failing try to delete the node_modules folder and re-install npm packages:
rm -rf ./node_modules
npm i
Playground
You may play with data-structures and algorithms in ./src/playground/playground.js file and write tests for it in ./src/playground/__test__/playground.test.js.
Then just simply run the following command to test if your playground code works as expected:
npm test -- 'playground'
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Big O notation is used to classify algorithms according to how their running time or space requirements grow as the input size grows. On the chart below you may find most common orders of growth of algorithms specified in Big O notation.
Source: Big O Cheat Sheet.
Below is the list of some of the most used Big O notations and their performance comparisons against different sizes of the input data.
Big O Notation | Computations for 10 elements | Computations for 100 elements | Computations for 1000 elements |
---|---|---|---|
O(1) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
O(log N) | 3 | 6 | 9 |
O(N) | 10 | 100 | 1000 |
O(N log N) | 30 | 600 | 9000 |
O(N^2) | 100 | 10000 | 1000000 |
O(2^N) | 1024 | 1.26e+29 | 1.07e+301 |
O(N!) | 3628800 | 9.3e+157 | 4.02e+2567 |
Data Structure | Access | Search | Insertion | Deletion | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Array | 1 | n | n | n | |
Stack | n | n | 1 | 1 | |
Queue | n | n | 1 | 1 | |
Linked List | n | n | 1 | n | |
Hash Table | - | n | n | n | In case of perfect hash function costs would be O(1) |
Binary Search Tree | n | n | n | n | In case of balanced tree costs would be O(log(n)) |
B-Tree | log(n) | log(n) | log(n) | log(n) | |
Red-Black Tree | log(n) | log(n) | log(n) | log(n) | |
AVL Tree | log(n) | log(n) | log(n) | log(n) | |
Bloom Filter | - | 1 | 1 | - | False positives are possible while searching |
Name | Best | Average | Worst | Memory | Stable | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bubble sort | n | n2 | n2 | 1 | Yes | |
Insertion sort | n | n2 | n2 | 1 | Yes | |
Selection sort | n2 | n2 | n2 | 1 | No | |
Heap sort | n log(n) | n log(n) | n log(n) | 1 | No | |
Merge sort | n log(n) | n log(n) | n log(n) | n | Yes | |
Quick sort | n log(n) | n log(n) | n2 | log(n) | No | Quicksort is usually done in-place with O(log(n)) stack space |
Shell sort | n log(n) | depends on gap sequence | n (log(n))2 | 1 | No | |
Counting sort | n + r | n + r | n + r | n + r | Yes | r - biggest number in array |
Radix sort | n * k | n * k | n * k | n + k | Yes | k - length of longest key |
Author: trekhleb
Official Website: https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms
License: MIT
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