for..in in javascript yields different output than forEach and for loop?

I am surprised i have not faced this until today, but this costed me a whole day as I blindly believed my for...in will work as it should. Please help me understand why this happens with for...in ? Now i’m paranoid to use for...in.

I have simplified the example so that we can just focus on the root cause.

/** map data we are interested in looping */
let map = {
    '0': [],
    '1': ['1']
}

below are the different scenarios and there respective output.

/** 
 * Method 1: Trouble maker
 *
 * details: 
 * when debugged it picks up 1 and then jumps to 0 before going inside
 * the loop for printing console */
for(let val in map['1']){
    console.log(val); // gives 0
}

/** Method 2: using forEach but i cant use return */
map['1'].forEach((pre) => {
    console.log(pre); // gives 1
})

/** Method 3: this is more verbose but can always fallback */
let result = map['1'];
for(let i=0; i< result.length; i++){
    console.log(result[i]); // gives 1
}

Answer

Your for...in loop is wrong. val should be the index of the array, so index 0 would be 1.
Example:

let map = {
    '0': [],
    '1': ['1']
}

const array = map['1'];

for(let index in array){
    console.log(array[index]); // gives 1
}

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