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Largest Container

You are given an integer array height of length n. There are n vertical lines drawn such that the two endpoints of the ith line are (i, 0) and (i, height[i]). Find two lines that together with the x-axis form a container, such that the container contains the most water. Return the maximum amount of water a container can store.

Notice that you may not slant the container.

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Input: height = [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]
Output: 49
Explanation: The above vertical lines are represented by array [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7].
In this case, the max area of water (blue section) the container can contain is 49.
function maxArea(height) {
let left = 0;
let right = height.length - 1;
let maxArea = 0;

while (left < right) {
const currentHeight = Math.min(height[left], height[right]);

const currentWidth = right - left;

const currentArea = currentHeight * currentWidth;

maxArea = Math.max(maxArea, currentArea);

if (height[left] < height[right]) {
left++;
} else {
right--;
}
}

return maxArea;
}