How can i get the number of times a word is in an array?

Suppose i have an array of objects:

const arrayOfItems = [{id: 1, title: "Pizza"}, {id: 2, title: "Pizza"}, {id: 3, title: "Pasta"}]

How can i get the number of times Pizza is in the array? I am building a simple add to cart functionality in JS where i want to show how many pizza there is in the cart.

Answer

You can use Array.reduce:

const arrayOfItems = [{id: 1, title: "Pizza"}, {id: 2, title: "Pizza"}, {id: 3, title: "Pasta"}]

const pizzaOccurrences = arrayOfItems.reduce((a,b) => a += b.title == "Pizza" ? 1 : 0, 0)

console.log(pizzaOccurrences)

Alternatively, you can use Array.filter to remove the items whose title property isn’t 'Pizza', then get the length:

const arrayOfItems = [{id: 1, title: "Pizza"}, {id: 2, title: "Pizza"}, {id: 3, title: "Pasta"}]

const pizzaOccurrences = arrayOfItems.filter(e => e.title == "Pizza").length

console.log(pizzaOccurrences)