How to use lodash to find and return an object from Array?

The argument passed to the callback is one of the elements of the array. The elements of your array are objects of the form {description: ..., id: ...}.

var delete_id = _.result(_.find(savedViews, function(obj) {
    return obj.description === view;
}), 'id');

Yet another alternative from the docs you linked to (lodash v3):

_.find(savedViews, 'description', view);

Lodash v4:

_.find(savedViews, ['description', view]);

lodash and ES5

var song = _.find(songs, {id:id});

lodash and ES6

let song = _.find(songs, {id});

docs at https://lodash.com/docs#find

With the find method, your callback is going to be passed the value of each element, like:

{
    description: 'object1', id: 1
}

Thus, you want code like:

_.find(savedViews, function(o) {
        return o.description === view;
})

You can do this easily in vanilla JS:

Using find:

const savedViews = [{"description":"object1","id":1},{"description":"object2","id":2},{"description":"object3","id":3},{"description":"object4","id":4}];

const view = 'object2';

const delete_id = savedViews.find(obj => {
  return obj.description === view;
}).id;

console.log(delete_id);

Using filter (original answer):

const savedViews = [{"description":"object1","id":1},{"description":"object2","id":2},{"description":"object3","id":3},{"description":"object4","id":4}];

const view = 'object2';

const delete_id = savedViews.filter(function (el) {
  return el.description === view;
})[0].id;

console.log(delete_id);