Finding the max value of an attribute in an array of objects

Question

I\'m looking for a really quick, clean and efficient way to get the max \"y\" value in the following JSON slice:

[
  {
    \"x\": \"8/11/2009\",
    \"y\": 0         


        

Answer 1

if you (or, someone here) are free to use lodash utility library, it has a maxBy function which would be very handy in your case.

hence you can use as such:

_.maxBy(jsonSlice, 'y');