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Several of the examples have an extra lambda like this. What does it do?

const toArray = (() => Array.from ? Array.from : obj => [].slice.call(obj) )();

It's an IFFE (Immediately-Invoked Function Expression). The goal is to perform the feature test (the availability of Array.from in this case) just once instead of for every function call.

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