Candy - JavaScript Coding Challenge

Given ratings array, distribute candies such that each child has at least one candy and children with higher ratings get more candies.

[1,0,2]

Hint 1

Make two passes: left to right and right to left

Hint 2

Left pass: if rating[i] > rating[i-1], candies[i] = candies[i-1] + 1

Hint 3

Right pass: if rating[i] > rating[i+1], candies[i] = max(candies[i], candies[i+1] + 1)

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