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Critical Examination of filter() Array Method in JavaScript

filter() calls a provided callback function once for each element in an array and constructs a new array of all the values for which callback returns a value that coerces to true. In other words filter() creates a new array under a given condition from an existing array.

The Syntax

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Example using an array of integers

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Filtering an Array of Objects

The very common use case of filter() is with an array of objects through their properties
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