The array is still one if not the major data structure in JavaScript. Especially given the fact that Set and Map were introduced way later, many developers have grown comfortable either going with a plain array or using a library for this purpose.
If we now take into account that the array is the only data structure in JavaScript that comes with functional monad methods (map, filter, forEach, etc.), although there is a proposal going on to add these methods to all iterables, it’s often more comfortable to go with a plain array for most purposes.
The JavaScript array makes no assumptions about its elements. You can mix and match types, and you can also push duplicates. But what if you only want the unique values of your array?
Gladly, there is a pretty short one-liner that makes it easy for you to filter out duplicates and get an array only containing unique values.
The Code
You can combine the spread operator together with the Set constructor to quickly get all unique values of an array:
const array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4]; const unique Values = [...new Set(array)];
There is only one issue with this code: The Set relies on the strict equality comparison (===), so it doesn’t work well for objects.
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