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date: 2020-10-09
id: c76b3766-a1ed-43f9-bdb6-4076e6bb5b7a
title: JavaScript Array Methods
---
# ES6
## Static Array methods
### Array.from()
``` javascript
const arr2 = Array.from(arguments); // ES6
```
If a value is [iterable](20201014092625-javascript_iterables) (as all
Array-like DOM data structure are by now), you can also use the
[spread](20201014094144-spread) operator (…) to convert it to an
[Array](20200826201029-arrays):
``` javascript
const arr1 = [...'abc'];
// ['a', 'b', 'c']
const arr2 = [...new Set().add('a').add('b')];
// ['a', 'b']
```
### Array.of()
This returns an array of the passed parameters
``` javascript
console.log(Array.of(1, 2, 3, 4)) // [1, 2, 3, 4]
```
## Array.prototype methods
### Array.prototype.fill()
``` javascript
const arr2 = new Array(2).fill(undefined);
// [undefined, undefined]
```
### Array.prototype.copyWithin()
The method signature is:
``` typescript
Array.prototype.copyWithin(target : number,
start : number, end = this.length) : This
```
It copies the elements whose indices are in the range \[start,end) to
index target and subsequent indices. If the two index ranges overlap,
care is taken that all source elements are copied before they are
overwritten. I am confused as to how this is in any way useful.
``` javascript
const arr = [0,1,2,3];
console.log(arr.copyWithin(2, 0, 2)) // [0, 1, 0, 1]
```
### Searching for elements
1. Array.prototype.findIndex()
``` javascript
console.log([6, -6, 8].findIndex(x => x < 0)) // 1
```
2. Array.prototype.find()
``` javascript
console.log([6, -6, 8].find(x => x < 0)) // -6
```
### Iteration
1. Array.prototype.entries()
``` javascript
console.log(Array.from(['a', 'b'].entries())) // [ [ 0, 'a' ], [ 1, 'b' ] ]
```
2. Array.prototype.values()
``` javascript
console.log(Array.from(['a', 'b'].values())) // ['a', 'b']
```
3. Array.prototype.keys()
``` javascript
console.log(Array.from(['a', 'b'].keys())) // [0, 1]
```
# ES2016
## Array.prototype.includes()
Tells you if array includes a certain element:
``` javascript
console.log(["a", "b", "c"].includes("a")); // true
console.log(["a", "b", "c"].includes("d")); // false
```