diff --git a/snippets/filterUniqueBy.md b/snippets/filterUniqueBy.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4ffcbd45c --- /dev/null +++ b/snippets/filterUniqueBy.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: filterUniqueBy +tags: array,intermediate +--- + +Creates an array with the unique values filtered out, based on a provided comparator function. + +- Use `Array.prototype.filter()` and `Array.prototype.every()` to create an array containing only the non-unique values, based on the comparator function, `fn`. +- The comparator function takes four arguments: the values of the two elements being compared and their indexes. + +```js +const filterUniqueBy = (arr, fn) => + arr.filter((v, i) => arr.some((x, j) => (i !== j) === fn(v, x, i, j))); +``` + +```js +filterUniqueBy( + [ + { id: 0, value: 'a' }, + { id: 1, value: 'b' }, + { id: 2, value: 'c' }, + { id: 3, value: 'd' }, + { id: 0, value: 'e' } + ], + (a, b) => a.id == b.id +); // [ { id: 0, value: 'a' }, { id: 0, value: 'e' } ] +```