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Replies for: I think you are missing one of the methods that was added not too long ago. Array.prototype.at(). To get the last element in an array you can do my...

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Daniel Gropp •

While it’s a cool new method, keep in mind that currently it’s not supported in Safari based devices.

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Wojciech •

In Safari Technology Preview you can activate it via Develop > Experimental Features

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Alex Lohr •

You can easily polyfill it:

if (![].at) {
  Array.prototype.at = function(pos) { return this.slice(pos, pos + 1)[0] }
}
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Nicolas Bouvrette •

This won't work with negative values.