I agree, .includes() would be a better solution for the specific problem I laid out. I just wanted to give a simple bit of code to illustrate how .some() works.
I'll try and add a second example to show another use-case.
I was thinking the same string, but some reminds me of a function I wrote a long time ago (in PHP) called someValidStrings which checked an array to make sure that there was at least 1 value that was correctly typed as a String, and also fulfilled some other business logic on what was considered "valid" (think: string length, ends with a run of 3 numbers, etc.). This is a case that some would excel at with the function callback rather than just looking for a certain value.
I was thinking that I could use find for the same purpose, but I see that there's a logical benefit to returning a boolean directly rather than a value that would have to be checked. I imagine find, some and findIndex work very similarly and only really differ in what they return.
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I think
.includes()
is better than.some()
for checking if an array contains a value or not:.some()
is good for other use-cases like finding if a value > 15 exists in an array:I agree,
.includes()
would be a better solution for the specific problem I laid out. I just wanted to give a simple bit of code to illustrate how.some()
works.I'll try and add a second example to show another use-case.
Thanks!
I was thinking the same string, but
some
reminds me of a function I wrote a long time ago (in PHP) calledsomeValidStrings
which checked an array to make sure that there was at least 1 value that was correctly typed as a String, and also fulfilled some other business logic on what was considered "valid" (think: string length, ends with a run of 3 numbers, etc.). This is a case thatsome
would excel at with the function callback rather than just looking for a certain value.I was thinking that I could use
find
for the same purpose, but I see that there's a logical benefit to returning a boolean directly rather than a value that would have to be checked. I imaginefind
,some
andfindIndex
work very similarly and only really differ in what they return.