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Replies for: I think the best way you can obtain the most lengthy string in an array is this: const mostLengthy = someArray .reduce((acc, i) => ...

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That's a good one, although it might be useful to first filter out nulls and undefineds from the array:

const mostLengthy = someArray
    .filter(item => item)
    .reduce((acc, i) => i.length > acc.length ? i : acc);
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