How to get unique an array of objects back from a complex an array of objects?

Question

How can I get unique values from this input JSON array on field input[i].user

I can write a for loop but wanted to know if there is a shorter way using filter/set etc ? Thanks

const input = [{
  "id": 133557,
  "user": "bcasey1",
  "userfullname": "Bertha Casey",
  "commentTypeId": 2,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 141614,
  "comment": "Red color on ravioli is not true, fix",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "133557-0",
  "timestamp": "Tue Apr 24 10:40:42 CDT 2018",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134038,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 1,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142286,
  "comment": "test123",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134038-0",
  "timestamp": "Mon Jul 8 22:15:18 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134039,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 2,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142287,
  "comment": "test234",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134039-0",
  "timestamp": "Mon Jul 8 22:15:35 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134112,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 3,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142361,
  "comment": "sadasdasd",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134112-0",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 13:03:55 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134112,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 0,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142370,
  "comment": "sadasdasd s",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134112-1",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 15:09:48 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134113,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 4,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142362,
  "comment": "sadasdasd edited #4",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134113-0",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 13:16:39 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134114,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 0,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142363,
  "comment": "sadasdasd edited #5",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134114-0",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 13:20:06 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134114,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 0,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142365,
  "comment": "sadasdasd edited #6",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134114-1",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 13:36:53 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134114,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 0,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142366,
  "comment": "sadasdasd edited #7",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134114-2",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 13:46:36 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134115,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 2,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142367,
  "comment": "eertet",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134115-0",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 14:50:03 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}, {
  "id": 134118,
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
  "commentTypeId": 3,
  "annotationPrimaryId": 142371,
  "comment": "a",
  "deleted": false,
  "historyno": "134118-0",
  "timestamp": "Wed Jul 17 15:09:58 CDT 2019",
  "type": "rectangle"
}];

const expectedOutput = [{
  "user": "bcasey1",
  "userfullname": "Bertha Casey"
}, {
  "user": "admin",
  "userfullname": "Administrator Administrator",
}];

console.log('expectedOutput', expectedOutput);

Answer 1

Using reduce() and Object.assign()

const input = [{"id":133557,"user":"bcasey1","userfullname":"Bertha Casey","commentTypeId":2,"annotationPrimaryId":141614,"comment":"Red color on ravioli is not true, fix","deleted":false,"historyno":"133557-0","timestamp":"Tue Apr 24 10:40:42 CDT 2018","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134038,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":1,"annotationPrimaryId":142286,"comment":"test123","deleted":false,"historyno":"134038-0","timestamp":"Mon Jul 8 22:15:18 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134039,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":2,"annotationPrimaryId":142287,"comment":"test234","deleted":false,"historyno":"134039-0","timestamp":"Mon Jul 8 22:15:35 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134112,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":3,"annotationPrimaryId":142361,"comment":"sadasdasd","deleted":false,"historyno":"134112-0","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 13:03:55 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134112,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":0,"annotationPrimaryId":142370,"comment":"sadasdasd s","deleted":false,"historyno":"134112-1","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 15:09:48 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134113,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":4,"annotationPrimaryId":142362,"comment":"sadasdasd edited #4","deleted":false,"historyno":"134113-0","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 13:16:39 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134114,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":0,"annotationPrimaryId":142363,"comment":"sadasdasd edited #5","deleted":false,"historyno":"134114-0","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 13:20:06 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134114,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":0,"annotationPrimaryId":142365,"comment":"sadasdasd edited #6","deleted":false,"historyno":"134114-1","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 13:36:53 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134114,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":0,"annotationPrimaryId":142366,"comment":"sadasdasd edited #7","deleted":false,"historyno":"134114-2","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 13:46:36 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134115,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":2,"annotationPrimaryId":142367,"comment":"eertet","deleted":false,"historyno":"134115-0","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 14:50:03 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"},{"id":134118,"user":"admin","userfullname":"Administrator Administrator","commentTypeId":3,"annotationPrimaryId":142371,"comment":"a","deleted":false,"historyno":"134118-0","timestamp":"Wed Jul 17 15:09:58 CDT 2019","type":"rectangle"}];

const expectedOutput = input.reduce((a, o) => Object.assign(a, {
  [o.user]: {
    user: o.user,
    userfullname: o.userfullname
  }
}), {});

console.log('expectedOutput', Object.values(expectedOutput));