filter unique items in array code example

Example 1: javascript remove uniques from array

function getNotUnique(array) {
    var map = new Map();
    array.forEach(a => map.set(a, (map.get(a) || 0) + 1));
    return array.filter(a => map.get(a) > 1);
}

console.log(getNotUnique([1, 2, 2, 4, 4])); //[2, 2, 4, 4]
console.log(getNotUnique([1, 2, 3] )); //[]

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]