Tips: How to get last element of an array in javascipt

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Sakib Ahmed

Posted on September 23, 2022

Tips: How to get last element of an array in javascipt

An array is a data structure, which can store a fixed-size collection of elements of the same data type

If you have worked with JavaScript arrays before, you might know that they can be destructured much like objects. This is most commonly used to extract the first value of an array or the values of an array with a known length.

But destructuring can go much further, as it allows you to extract the length property of an array. Add this to the fact that extracted variables can be used in the destructuring assignment itself and you can put together a one-liner to extract the last element of an array.

const arr = [1, 2, 3];
const { 0: first, length, [length - 1]: last } = arr;
first; // 1
last; // 3
length; // 3
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While this technique is interesting, it has a couple of caveats. First off, you have to extract the length property, which creates an additional variable for it. And secondly, it doesn’t have any significant performance advantages over other options, such as using Array.prototype.slice().

Another way we can do is, first we need array length then subtract 1 to get the last element index.

Take a look at code

const arr = [1, 2, 3];
const lastEle = arr[arr.length - 1]
lastEle; // 3
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arr.length = 3
3 – 1 = 2
arr[2] = 3

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Sakib Ahmed

Posted on September 23, 2022

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