Since ES6 there is the native find
method for arrays; this stops enumerating the array once it finds the first match and returns the value.
const result = someArray.find(isNotNullNorUndefined);
Old answer:
I have to post an answer to stop these filter
suggestions 🙂
since there are so many functional-style array methods in ECMAScript, perhaps there’s something out there already like this?
You can use the some
Array method to iterate the array until a condition is met (and then stop). Unfortunately it will only return whether the condition was met once, not by which element (or at what index) it was met. So we have to amend it a little:
function find(arr, test, ctx) {
var result = null;
arr.some(function(el, i) {
return test.call(ctx, el, i, arr) ? ((result = el), true) : false;
});
return result;
}
var result = find(someArray, isNotNullNorUndefined);