10 one-liners that will change how you think about JavaScript forever

Tari Ibaba
Coding Beauty
Published in
4 min readJul 16, 2024

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Amazing one-liners like this☝️ show your mastery of a language and its unique data-processing abilities.

And here’s something interesting about JavaScript most developers don’t know:

You can transform any piece of JavaScript code into a one-liner.

With one-liners I went from 17 imperative lines:

❌ Before:

To a single functional statement:

✅ After:

The second is so much cleaner and elegant — you can clearly see how the data beautifully flows from input to output with no mutations.

1. Shuffle array

❌ Before:

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Tari Ibaba
Coding Beauty

I help you gain the coding knowledge and skills to build the life you love.