JavaScript filter() method

I figured I’ve never really done an explanation of the Array methods in JavaScript. These are methods to make our lives way easier.

To explain how you must understand before these methods existed, we would have to make a manual loop and create a filter.

Using the Javascript filter() method permalink

Let’s make a list of items with prices.

const items = [
  { name: 'T-shirt plain', price: 9 },
  { name: 'T-shirt print', price: 20 },
  { name: 'Jeans', price: 30 },
  { name: 'Cap', price: 5 },
];

Let’s say we want to filter out all the items over 10$.

const filter = items.filter((item) => item.price > 10);
// [ { name: 'T-shirt print', price: 20 }, { name: 'Jeans', price: 30 } ]

How this syntax works:

const new = original.filter(function);

Where new will be our new-to-use array, the original is the source, and we pass the function we want to apply.

So how did it look before?

Something like this.

const output = [];
for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
  if (items[i].price > 10) output.push(items[i]);
}
// [ { name: 'T-shirt print', price: 20 }, { name: 'Jeans', price: 30 } ]

It also works fine, but the array method makes it much quicker, especially with more advanced filters.

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