Weird Weight Explainer

Puzzle Explainer
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The aim of this puzzle:
Use console.log() to observe ow the code is running, and find the errors in the code.

Walkthrough of the solution:
The function prepareRecipeCards() runs three lines of code as the main program. The second line is printTotalWeight(). But the output doesn’t make sense:

> Total ingredient weight: 7two1.5 kilos

To see what’s happening in the function, add two console.log() statements inside the for loop in printTotalWeight().

At the top fo the code, two variables are imported on this line:

import {itemWeight, totalWeight} from 'debugging';

itemWeight and totalWeight are helper strings to use for this puzzle.

First, at the top of the for loop, log itemWeight + i.kilos. Then at the bottom of the loop, log totalWeight + total. The final version of printTotalWeight() should look like this:

function printTotalWeight() {
  let total = 0;
  for (let i of ingredients) {
    console.log(itemWeight + i.kilos);
    total += i.kilos;
    console.log(totalWeight + total);
  }
  print('Total ingredient weight: ' + total + ' kilos');
}

Now when the code is run, we see exactly what’s happening inside the loop. Here is the new output:

Item Weight: 4
> Total Weight: 4
> Item Weight: 2
> Total Weight: 6
> Item Weight: 1
> Total Weight: 7
> Item Weight: two
> Total Weight: 7two
> Item Weight: 1.5
> Total Weight: 7two1.5
> Total ingredient weight: 7two1.5 kilos

Now we can see that the kilos property of one of the objects in the ingredients array is the string two instead of the number 2.

Sample code solution:
(Tap below to reveal)

import {addIngredient} from 'cookbook';
import {itemWeight, totalWeight} from 'debugging';

let ingredients = [
  {
    name: 'potatoes',
    kilos: 4,
  },
  {
    name: 'carrots',
    kilos: 2,
  },
  {
    name: 'onions',
    kilos: 1,
  },
  {
    name: 'chickens',
    kilos: 'two',
  },
];

let leeks = {name: 'leeks', kilos: 1.5};

function printTotalWeight() {
  let total = 0;
  for (let i of ingredients) {
    console.log(itemWeight + i.kilos);
    total += i.kilos;
    console.log(totalWeight + total);
  }
  print('Total ingredient weight: ' + total + ' kilos');
}

function printIngredient(ingredient) {
  print(ingredient.kilos + ' kilos ' + ingredient.name);
}

function prepareRecipeCards() {
  try {
    addIngredient(leeks);
    printTotalWeight();
    ingredients.forEach(printIngredient());
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
}

prepareRecipeCards();

Additional code Additional Code (hidden code that runs before the puzzle’s code):

function _addIngredient({name, kilos}) {
  if (isNaN(kilos)) {
    throw new Error(`kilos must be a number. got ${kilos} instead`);
  }
  ingredients.push({
    name,
    kilos,
  });
  console.log(`Added ${name}, ${kilos} kilos, to the ingredients list.`);
}

defineModule(
    'cookbook',
    {
      addIngredient: _addIngredient,
    }
);

defineModule(
    'debugging',
    {
      itemWeight: 'Item Weight: ',
      totalWeight: 'Total Weight: ',
    }
);
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