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 way. I try to group data fist.

const _ = require("underscore")

var test  = [ 1, 1, 2, 1 ];
var groupResult = _.groupBy(test, (e)=> e);

The groupResult should be

{
  1: [1, 1, 1]
  2: [2] 
}

Then find the property which has the longest array

function findMax(groupResult){
   var maxArr = []
   var max;
   for(var item in groupResult){
     if(!max) { 
        max = { value:item, count: groupResult[item].length } ; 
        maxArr.push(max); 
        continue;
     }
     if(max.count < groupResult[item].length){ 
        maxArr = [];
        max = { value:item, count: groupResult[item].length }
        maxArr.push(max)
     } else if(max === groupResult[item].length)
        maxArr.push({ value:item, count: groupResult[item].length })
   }
   return maxArr;
}

The complete code looks like

const _ = require("underscore")

var test  = [ 1, 1, 2, 1 ];
var groupResult= _.groupBy(test, (e)=> e);
console.log(findMax(groupResult)[0].value);

function findMax(groupResult){
   var maxArr = []
   var max;
   for(var item in groupResult){
     if(!max) { 
        max = { value:item, count: groupResult[item].length } ; 
        maxArr.push(max); 
        continue;
     }
     if(max.count < groupResult[item].length){ 
        maxArr = [];
        max = { value:item, count: groupResult[item].length }
        maxArr.push(max)
     } else if(max === groupResult[item].length)
        maxArr.push({ value:item, count: groupResult[item].length })
   }
   return maxArr;
}