filter array to get unique values typescript code example

Example 1: javascript get distinct values from array

const categories = ['General', 'Exotic', 'Extreme', 'Extreme', 'General' ,'Water', 'Extreme']
.filter((value, index, categoryArray) => categoryArray.indexOf(value) === index);

This will return an array that has the unique category names
['General', 'Exotic', 'Extreme', 'Water']

Example 2: Filtering an array for unique values

const my_array = [1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5]
const unique_array = [...new Set(my_array)];
console.log(unique_array); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]