What is the elegant way to get the latest date from array of objects in client side?

Question

I use angularjs in project.

I get array of objects from the server. Each object contains few properties and one of them is date property.

Here is the Array

Answer 1

Also further to @TravisHeeter's answer..

Instead of using 'filter' and grabbing the array index of [0], you can use the .find() method instead as follows:

....

const mostRecentObject = a.find( e => { 
    const d = new Date( e.MeasureDate ); 
    return d.getTime() == mostRecentDate.getTime();
});

This also makes the code more performant, as it will stop looking after it has found the result, rather than filter which will iterate over all objects in the array.