30-seconds-of-code/javascript/snippets/difference.md

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Array difference	snippet	array	interior-3	2020-10-19T18:51:03+03:00

Calculates the difference between two arrays, without filtering duplicate values.

• Create a Set from b to get the unique values in b.
• Use Array.prototype.filter() on a to only keep values not contained in b, using Set.prototype.has().

const difference = (a, b) => {
  const s = new Set(b);
  return a.filter(x => !s.has(x));
};

difference([1, 2, 3, 3], [1, 2, 4]); // [3, 3]