javascript | Object grouping

Question

I have an object. It looks like below:

[
  {
    \"name\":\"Display\",
    \"group\":\"Technical detals\",
    \"id\":\"60\",
    \"value\":\"4\"
  },
  {
           


        

Answer 1

If you are using lodash, you can use groupBy.

It supports both array and object.

Example:

_.groupBy([6.1, 4.2, 6.3], Math.floor);
// => { '4': [4.2], '6': [6.1, 6.3] }

// The `_.property` iteratee shorthand.
_.groupBy(['one', 'two', 'three'], 'length');
// => { '3': ['one', 'two'], '5': ['three'] }

Answer 2

Reduce is great for situations like this. Given list below is your input data:

const list = [{
    'name': 'Display',
    'group': 'Technical detals',
    'id': '60',
    'value': '4'
  },
  {
    'name': 'Manufacturer',
    'group': 'Manufacturer',
    'id': '58',
    'value': 'Apple'
  },
  {
    'name': 'OS',
    'group': 'Technical detals',
    'id': '37',
    'value': 'Apple iOS'
  }
];

const groups = list.reduce((groups, item) => {
  const group = (groups[item.group] || []);
  group.push(item);
  groups[item.group] = group;
  return groups;
}, {});

console.log(groups);

And if you wanted to be immutable, you could write the reduce like this:

const list = [{
    'name': 'Display',
    'group': 'Technical detals',
    'id': '60',
    'value': '4'
  },
  {
    'name': 'Manufacturer',
    'group': 'Manufacturer',
    'id': '58',
    'value': 'Apple'
  },
  {
    'name': 'OS',
    'group': 'Technical detals',
    'id': '37',
    'value': 'Apple iOS'
  }
];

const groups = list.reduce((groups, item) => ({
  ...groups,
  [item.group]: [...(groups[item.group] || []), item]
}), {});

console.log(groups);

Depending on whether your environment allows the spread syntax.

Answer 3

Try

let g = (d,h={},r={},i=0)=>(d.map(x=>(y=x.group,h[y]?1:(h[y]=++i,r[h[y]-1]=[]),r[h[y]-1].push(x))),r);
console.log( g(data) );

let data=[
  {
    "name":"Display",
    "group":"Technical detals",
    "id":"60",
    "value":"4"
  },
  {
    "name":"Manufacturer",
    "group":"Manufacturer",
    "id":"58",
    "value":"Apple"
  },
  {
    "name":"OS",
    "group":"Technical detals",
    "id":"37",
    "value":"Apple iOS"
  }
];


let g = (d,h={},r={},i=0)=>(d.map(x=>(y=x.group,h[y]?1:(h[y]=++i,r[h[y]-1]=[]),r[h[y]-1].push(x))),r);

console.log(g(data));

Answer 4

Use reduce and filter.

lets say your initial array is assigned to data

data.reduce((acc, d) => {
    if (Object.keys(acc).includes(d.group)) return acc;

    acc[d.group] = data.filter(g => g.group === d.group); 
    return acc;
}, {})

this will give you something like

{
    "Technical detals" = [
    {
       'group'   = 'Technical detals',
       'name'    = 'Display',
       'id'      = '60',
       'value'   = '4'
    },
    {
       'group'   = 'Technical detals',
       'name'    = 'OS',
       'id'      = '37',
       'value'   = 'Apple iOS'
    }],
    "Manufacturer"   = [
    {
       'group'   = 'Manufacturer',
       'name'    = 'Manufacturer',
       'id'      = '58',
       'value'   = 'Apple'
    }]
}