Won't You Be My Neighbor? explainer

Puzzle Explainer
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Aim of the puzzle: Use indexing to access the item neighboring another item in an array.
Walk through of solution:
The getNeighbor() function will take an array and an index, and return the item in the array that is next to the index.

To start, add 2 parameters to the function. Name them something like arr and i so they don’t get confused with the array and index variables that are imported into the puzzle.

Inside the function, create a variable to store the neighboring index. Give it a value of index + 1

Next, return the neighboring item from the function.

Finally, inside the console.log() at the bottom of the code, add array and index as arguments to the function.
Sample code solution:

import { array, index } from 'grasshopper.arrayFactory';

function getNeighbor (arr, i){
    let neighbor = i + 1
    return arr[neighbor]
}

console.log('The neighbor to ' + array[index] + ' is ' + getNeighbor(array,index))

Javascript Concepts: Arrays, Indexing, .length, Functions, Local Variables, Return Statement
Additional Code (hidden code that runs before the puzzle’s code):

const list = [
  ['first_item', 'second_item','third_item', 'fourth_item', 'fifth_item', 'sixth_item', 'seventh_item', 'eighth_item', 'ninth_item', 'tenth_item']
    ];
    
const numbers = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

let array =pickRandom(list);
let index = pickRandom(numbers);
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I was stuck on this one for ages, despite knowing the correct answer, because I found I couldn’t place brackets after arr - pressing the [ ] simply replaced arr. For anyone else stuck, press the pink brackets instead of the orange ones!

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