Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes? Alex MacArthur breaks down some of the reasons Maps are especially useful tools when working with a large number of DOM nodes. We use a lot of plain, old objects to store key/value data in JavaScript, and they're great at their job – clear and legible.

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Any object can be a key.Read/write operations are generally more performant.WeakMaps steward memory more effectively.TL;DROther Use Cases?

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