Use a set to remove array duplicates

Andy Bell, 03 July 2020

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If you have an array of items that contains duplicates, you can remove them all by spreading the array into a new Set.

Code languagejavascript

const array = ['Hello', 'Hi', 'Hello', 'Ciao'];

const filtered = [...new Set(array)];

console.log(filtered); // ['Hello', 'Hi', 'Ciao']

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Use a set to remove array duplicates

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