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Benjamin🦸‍♂️Auzanneau™
Benjamin🦸‍♂️Auzanneau™

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Quick tip about array and unique values

The naive way to do this is to check each value, add it to a data structure, and detect if we haven't added it before.

The naive way

const namesFromAnotherGalaxy= ['Luke', 'Leia', 'Obi-Wan', 'Luke', 'Obi-Wan'];

function naiveWay(names) {
  const unique = {};
  names.forEach((i) => {
    if(!unique[i]) {
      unique[i] = true;
    }
  });
  return Object.keys(unique );
}

naiveWay(namesFromAnotherGalaxy); // ['Luke', 'Leia', 'Obi-Wan']
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Another simple way of thinking to get unique values from an array is to use the filter method to filter out the repetitive values.

The filter way

const duelists = ['Yugi', 'Kaiba', 'Yugi', 'Joey', 'Joey'];

const filterWay = (names) => names.filter((value, index) => names.indexOf(value) === index)

filterWay(duelists); // ['Yugi', 'Kaiba', 'Joey'];
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But with the new native Set object we can do something smoother and easier.

This is the way

const thisIsTheWay= [...new Set(['kobe', 'kobe', 'michael', 23, 24, 23])]; // ['kobe', 'michael', 23, 24]
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That's it, make good use of it !


I'm not a native English speaker so, thanks in advance if you want to improve my article with correct syntax/grammar/sentences.

I can accept all kind remarks :)

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