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JavaScript Data Structures - Doubly Linked List

Definition

A doubly linked list is a linear data structure that represents a collection of elements, where each element points both to the next and the previous one. The first element in the doubly linked list is the head and the last element is the tail.

JavaScript Doubly Linked List visualization

Each element of a doubly linked list data structure must have the following properties:

The main properties of a doubly linked list data structure are:

The main operations of a doubly linked list data structure are:

Implementation

class DoublyLinkedList {
  constructor() {
    this.nodes = [];
  }

  get size() {
    return this.nodes.length;
  }

  get head() {
    return this.size ? this.nodes[0] : null;
  }

  get tail() {
    return this.size ? this.nodes[this.size - 1] : null;
  }

  insertAt(index, value) {
    const previousNode = this.nodes[index - 1] || null;
    const nextNode = this.nodes[index] || null;
    const node = { value, next: nextNode, previous: previousNode };

    if (previousNode) previousNode.next = node;
    if (nextNode) nextNode.previous = node;
    this.nodes.splice(index, 0, node);
  }

  insertFirst(value) {
    this.insertAt(0, value);
  }

  insertLast(value) {
    this.insertAt(this.size, value);
  }

  getAt(index) {
    return this.nodes[index];
  }

  removeAt(index) {
    const previousNode = this.nodes[index - 1] || null;
    const nextNode = this.nodes[index + 1] || null;

    if (previousNode) previousNode.next = nextNode;
    if (nextNode) nextNode.previous = previousNode;

    return this.nodes.splice(index, 1);
  }

  clear() {
    this.nodes = [];
  }

  reverse() {
    this.nodes = this.nodes.reduce((acc, { value }) => {
      const nextNode = acc[0] || null;
      const node = { value, next: nextNode, previous: null };
      if (nextNode) nextNode.previous = node;
      return [node, ...acc];
    }, []);
  }

  *[Symbol.iterator]() {
    yield* this.nodes;
  }
}
const list = new DoublyLinkedList();

list.insertFirst(1);
list.insertFirst(2);
list.insertFirst(3);
list.insertLast(4);
list.insertAt(3, 5);

list.size;                      // 5
list.head.value;                // 3
list.head.next.value;           // 2
list.tail.value;                // 4
list.tail.previous.value;       // 5
[...list.map(e => e.value)];    // [3, 2, 1, 5, 4]

list.removeAt(1);               // 2
list.getAt(1).value;            // 1
list.head.next.value;           // 1
[...list.map(e => e.value)];    // [3, 1, 5, 4]

list.reverse();
[...list.map(e => e.value)];    // [4, 5, 1, 3]

list.clear();
list.size;                      // 0

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