How to split a long array into smaller arrays, with JavaScript

Question

Don't use jquery...use plain javascript

var a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15];

var b = a.splice(0,10);

//a is now [11,12,13,14,15];
//b is now [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];

You could loop this to get the behavior you want.

var a = YOUR_ARRAY;
while(a.length) {
    console.log(a.splice(0,10));
}

This would give you 10 elements at a time...if you have say 15 elements, you would get 1-10, the 11-15 as you wanted.

var size = 10; var arrayOfArrays = [];
for (var i=0; i<bigarray.length; i+=size) {
     arrayOfArrays.push(bigarray.slice(i,i+size));
}
console.log(arrayOfArrays);

Unlike splice(), slice() is non-destructive to the original array.

Just loop over the array, splicing it until it's all consumed.

var a = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g']
  , chunk

while (a.length > 0) {

  chunk = a.splice(0,3)

  console.log(chunk)

}

output

[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]
[ 'd', 'e', 'f' ]
[ 'g' ]

You can use lodash: https://lodash.com/docs

_.chunk(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], 2);
// → [['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']]

Assuming you don't want to destroy the original array, you can use code like this to break up the long array into smaller arrays which you can then iterate over:

var longArray = [];   // assume this has 100 or more email addresses in it
var shortArrays = [], i, len;

for (i = 0, len = longArray.length; i < len; i += 10) {
    shortArrays.push(longArray.slice(i, i + 10));
}

// now you can iterate over shortArrays which is an 
// array of arrays where each array has 10 or fewer 
// of the original email addresses in it

for (i = 0, len = shortArrays.length; i < len; i++) {
    // shortArrays[i] is an array of email addresss of 10 or less
}

Array.reduce could be inefficient for large arrays, especially with the mod operator. I think a cleaner (and possibly easier to read) functional solution would be this:

const chunkArray = (arr, size) =>
  arr.length > size
    ? [arr.slice(0, size), ...chunkArray(arr.slice(size), size)]
    : [arr];