Vanilla Javascript unique numbers in array with reduce and find

Question

I'm trying to achieve to write an array function with the use of reduce and find helpers that returns an array of unique numbers.

var numbers = [1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4];
// function should return [1, 2, 3, 4]

function unique(array) {
  array.reduce((uniqueArray, number) => {
    if (uniqueArray.indexOf(find(array.number))) {
      uniqueArray.push(array.number);
    }
    return uniqueArray;
  }, []);
}
console.log(unique(numbers));
// undefined 
// undefined

When running this code I get

undefined

twice in Browser Javascript console.

Answer 1

You need a return statment.

return array.reduce((uniqueArray // ...
// ^^^

And some better find method with Array.indexOf

function unique(array) {
    return array.reduce((uniqueArray, number) => {
        if (uniqueArray.indexOf(number) === -1) {
            uniqueArray.push(number);
        }
        return uniqueArray;
    }, []);
}

var numbers = [1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4];
console.log(unique(numbers));

And now with Set and spread syntax ... for collecting the items in a new array.

function unique(array) {
    return [... new Set(array)];
}

var numbers = [1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4];
console.log(unique(numbers));