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What are the possible side-effects in javascript?

A side effect is the modification of the state through the invocation of a function or expression. These side effects make our function impure by default. Below are some side effects which make function impure,

  • Making an HTTP request. Asynchronous functions such as fetch and promise are impure.
  • DOM manipulations
  • Mutating the input data
  • Printing to a screen or console: For example, console.log() and alert()
  • Fetching the current time
  • Math.random() calls: Modifies the internal state of Math object
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