There's nothing to memorize here, or there shouldn't be, because "filter" is a standard array function in JS that I imagine most JS developers have encountered.

There's nothing to memorize here, or there shouldn't be, because "filter" is a standard array function in JS that I imagine most JS developers have encountered. Knowing how "filter" works is valuable because now you can use that knowledge in the future on any project that uses JS, unlike "_.compact" which is only applicable in projects that use lodash. You can be relatively confident that you can write "filter(elem => <some function>)" and that other developers will know what "filter" is doing. The second part is more tricky, but still useful. The !! operator is just two "!" operators. That's pretty normal too. The first "!" converts an object/number/whatever into the opposite of its boolean value. The second "!" negates the first boolean, thus turning the opposite of the boolean value into the object's original boolean value. Even if figuring this out on your own is slightly more difficult, it gives you valuable insight into the language (JS is very dynamically-typed and the not operator can cast objects to booleans), which will help you write better/safer/more concise/clearer code in the future.