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5 Rounds
~21 Days
Very Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a function to parse and render a continuous stream of Markdown text. How do you handle incomplete Markdown tokens (e.g., a code block that has started with '```' but hasn't closed yet)?
#Parsing
#String Manipulation
#Edge Cases
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function to deeply merge two JavaScript objects. It should handle nested objects, arrays, and edge cases like null or undefined.
#Recursion
#Data Structures
#Type Checking
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache class in JavaScript. It should have `get(key)` and `put(key, value)` methods, both operating in O(1) time complexity.
#Data Structures
#Hash Maps
#Linked Lists
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function that takes a string of HTML and returns true if the tags are properly balanced and nested, and false otherwise.
#Stacks
#String Parsing
#Regex
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a function to traverse the DOM tree starting from a given node and return an array of all text nodes that match a specific regular expression.
#DOM API
#Tree Traversal
#Recursion
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Implement a function that schedules tasks with a maximum concurrency limit. It should take an array of functions (returning promises) and a concurrency number.
#Promises
#Concurrency
#Queues
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function to find the shortest path between two DOM elements in the DOM tree (i.e., finding their lowest common ancestor and the path to it).
#DOM API
#Tree Traversal
#Pointers
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a function to serialize a DOM tree into a JSON object, and another function to deserialize that JSON object back into a DOM tree.
#DOM API
#Serialization
#Recursion
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