What's the Difference Between JavaScript "Array.reduce()" and "Array.reduceRight()" Methods?

In JavaScript, the Array.prototype.reduce() and Array.prototype.reduceRight() methods only differ in terms of how they traverse elements of an array:

• Array.prototype.reduce() starts from left-to-right;
• Array.prototype.reduceRight() starts from right-to-left.

Other than that, there are no differences between the two; they both apply the given function against an accumulator and each value of the array, to reduce it to a single value.

Consider the following example, which illustrates the difference between the two:

const arr = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'];

const ltr = arr.reduce((previous, current) => previous + current);
const rtl = arr.reduceRight((previous, current) => previous + current);

console.log(ltr); // 'abcd'
console.log(rtl); // 'dcba'