4 Helpful Javascript Array tricks you should know

An array is one of the most common concepts of Javascript, which gives us a lot of possibilities to work with data. Check these tricks which can be very helpful!

👉 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 🧑‍💻

🌶️ 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝘆 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁.
In #javascript falsy values are false, 0, ” ", null, NaN, undefined. Now we can find out how to remove this kind of value from our array. To achieve this, we are going to use the .filter().🚀

🌶️ 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁.
Sometimes we need to select a value from the array randomly. To create it, we can get a random index number according to the array length.🚀

🌶️ 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗵𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁
Shuffling is easy with the sort method. As long as it returns a random number, positive or negative, we can sort it with a random order.🚀

🌶️ 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁.
We can use a Set() to ensure that values in the array we are checking are not duplicated, and we will use .filter and .includes methods. As a result, we will get the array with values that were presented in both arrays.🚀

Comments

[Adam Crockett 🌀]

Better to do

[].filter(Boolean)

As the Boolean constructor is called on falsey values and returns false to filter them.

Although the absolutely best way is to not allow falsey values into an array for processing, then no work is needed

[Vishnu Sivan]

Good article. IT helps JavaScript developers to do some array operations in much better way.

[Ben Sinclair]

Hi, can I suggest that you put your code into a code block rather than using a screenshot? If you paste it in between three-backticks you get something like this:

console.log("Why hello there");

and that's something that'll help you with:

• searchability on the page with ctrl/cmd+F
• searchability through something like Google
• accessibility (screen-reader users currently see your code as "image description" which is the placeholder Markdown uses here)
• people wanting to copy/paste your code to try it out for themselves

[talent]

Thanks Ben for the heads up,much appreciated!!

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

Remove falsy values from an array:

arr.filter(x=>x)

Why convert to a Boolean when JS is going to do that anyway? That's the whole point of truey/falsy values