Removing duplicate array values and then storing them [react]

Question

I'm trying to strip the duplicate array values from my current array. And I'd like to store the fresh list (list without duplicates) into a new variable.

var names = ["Daniel","Lucas","Gwen","Henry","Jasper","Lucas","Daniel"];

const uniqueNames = [];
const namesArr = names.filter((val, id) => {
    names.indexOf(val) == id;  // this just returns true
});

How can I remove the duplicated names and place the non-duplicates into a new variable?

ie: uniqueNames would return...

["Daniel","Lucas","Gwen","Henry","Jasper"] 

(I'm using react jsx) Thank you!

Answer 1

You can do it in a one-liner

const uniqueNames = Array.from(new Set(names));

// it will return a collection of unique items

Note that @Wild Widow pointed out one of your mistake - you did not use the return statement. (it sucks when we forget, but it happens!)

I will add to that that you code could be simplified and the callback could be more reusable if you take into account the third argument of the filter(a,b,c) function - where c is the array being traversed. With that said you could refactor your code as follow:

const uniqueNames = names.filter((val, id, array) => {
   return array.indexOf(val) == id;  
});

Also, you won't even need a return statement if you use es6

const uniqueNames = names.filter((val,id,array) => array.indexOf(val) == id);

Answer 2

If you want to remove duplicate values which contains same "id", You can use this.

const arr = [
  { id: 2, name: "sumit" },
  { id: 1, name: "amit" },
  { id: 3, name: "rahul" },
  { id: 4, name: "jay" },
  { id: 2, name: "ra one" },
  { id: 3, name: "alex" },
  { id: 1, name: "devid" },
  { id: 7, name: "sam" },
  ];

---

function getUnique(arr, index) {

  const unique = arr
       .map(e => e[index])

       // store the keys of the unique objects
       .map((e, i, final) => final.indexOf(e) === i && i)
  
       // eliminate the dead keys & store unique objects
      .filter(e => arr[e]).map(e => arr[e]);      

   return unique;
}

console.log(getUnique(arr,'id'))

---

Result :

[ 
  { id: 2, name: "sumit" },
  { id: 1, name: "amit" },
  { id: 3, name: "rahul" },  
  { id: 4, name: "jay" },  
  { id: 7, name: "sam" }
]