So your most likely going to be iterating through an array or an object, we'll start with an array;
var array = [1,2,3,4,5]; //your array
for(var i = 0; i<array.lengh; i++){
doStuff(array[i]);
}
the only issue with that is that you are checking the length of the array every time, so instead you could do
for(var i = 0, len = array.length; i<len; i++){
doStuff(array[i]);
}
note the comma, technically var i = a; var b; var c = whatever; is equivalent to var i = a,b,c = whatever;
lastly modern browsers have new way to modify an array in place like this, the previous two examples are equivalent to
array.forEach(doStuff);
yeah that was easy
now if you wanted the results of it like say the function
function doStuff(v){
v++;
return v;
}
for(var i = 0, len = array.length, out=[]; i<len; i++){
out.push(doStuff(array[i]));
}
now out = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6];/on modern browsers you can use map so that is equivalent to array.map(doStuff); which btw you can also write an anonymous function
array.map(function(v){return v+1;});
now for objects say you have an object var obj = {a:1,b:2,c:3,d:4,e:5}; there is a shortcut
for(var key in obj){
console.log(key+": "+obj[key])
}
this is the equivalent of
var keyz = keys(obj);
avoid doing var keys = keys(obj) as that overwrites the function, though keys(object) is actually a shortcut to Object.keys(object);
for(var i = 0, len = keyz.length;i<len;i++){
console.log(keyz[i]+": "+obj[keyz[i]]);
}