Get the element with the highest occurrence in an array

Question

I\'m looking for an elegant way of determining which element has the highest occurrence (mode) in a JavaScript array.

For example, in

[\'pear\', \'a         


        

Answer 1

Here is my solution :-

function frequent(number){
    var count = 0;
    var sortedNumber = number.sort();
    var start = number[0], item;
    for(var i = 0 ;  i < sortedNumber.length; i++){
      if(start === sortedNumber[i] || sortedNumber[i] === sortedNumber[i+1]){
         item = sortedNumber[i]
      }
    }
    return item
  
}

   console.log( frequent(['pear', 'apple', 'orange', 'apple']))