Looking for a very simple, elegant solution to count the frequency of different values in a javascript object. For example:
var input = [ {"a": "1", "b": "2"}, {"a": "2", "b": "2"}, {"a": "2", "b": "2", "c": "2"}, {"a": "bananas"} ] var output = { "a": {"1": 1, "2": 2, "bananas": 1}, "b": {"2": 3}, "c": {"2": 1}, }
I could probably loop over everything manually, but is there a simple and elegant solution, probably using reducers?
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Answer
a reduce
and a forEach
. Object.entries
to get the entries of each element of input array. Nullish coalescing operator(??
) to shorten the logic acc[k]=acc[k]||{}
var input = [ {"a": "1", "b": "2"}, {"a": "2", "b": "2"}, {"a": "2", "b": "2", "c": "2"}, {"a": "bananas"} ] const output = input.reduce((acc,curr)=>{ const entries = Object.entries(curr) entries.forEach(([k,v])=>{ acc[k]??={} //initializing key if not present acc[k][v]??=0 //initializing count if not present for each value acc[k][v]++ //incrementing }) return acc },{}) console.log(output)