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Tips: How to get last element of an array in javascipt

Sakib Ahmed on September 23, 2022

An array is a data structure, which can store a fixed-size collection of elements of the same data type If you have worked with JavaScript arrays ...

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Mike Talbot ⭐ • Sep 23 '22

   const arr = [1, 2, 3]
   const lastElement = arr.at(-1)

MUHAMMED NAVAS • Sep 26 '22

it is making an error, arr.at is not a function.

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Sep 27 '22 • Edited

This is modern ES6 syntax, you will either need a modern browser/version of node or to use a transpiler like Babel.

This is the currently supported list:

caniuse.com/mdn-javascript_builtin...

Quoc Huynh Website • Sep 24 '22

perfect

Yuwang Cai • Sep 24 '22

I especially love this feature when combined with optional chain, in TypeScript, e.g. unknownArr?.at(1) ?? 0. It makes the code so much cleaner.

Jon Randy 🎖️ • Sep 23 '22

Beat me to it

Yash • Sep 24 '22

well i always do

array[array.length - 1]

codemeop • Sep 24 '22

i always use arr.length-1

Ludovic974 • Sep 23 '22

arr.pop() ?????

Sakib Ahmed • Sep 23 '22

pop() method removes the last element from an array and returns that element. This method changes the length of the array.

Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Sep 24 '22 • Edited

Cool, i knew a little about the pop() method but now is more clear to me.

Here is a small example of this

var fruits = ['apples', 'oranges', 'grapes'];
var myLastFruit = fruits.pop();
console.log(fruits, myLastFruit);

This would log:

Array [ "apples", "oranges" ] grapes

As you can see 'grapes' now doesn't form part of the fruits variable but at the same time the pop() method returns the last item of the array. So clearly, if someone is going to use this method must be aware of this.

Gil Fewster • Dec 12 '22

The destructuring tip here is a good one, but it's not your own. It comes from 30 Seconds of Code -- 30secondsofcode.org/articles/s/js-....

Sharing links to useful articles, tips and content is great, but please don't simply repost other people's work in entirety and without credit. A better approach is to include a short extract from the original article, clearly identify the original author and and include a link to the original material. Something like this:

I found this great tip on 30 Seconds of Code for using destructing to get an array's length, last element.

const arr = [1, 2, 3];
const { 0: first, length, [length - 1]: last } = arr;
first; // 1
last; // 3
length; // 3

See the original article at 30secondsofcode.org/articles/s/js-...

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