Difference and intersection of two arrays containing objects

Question

I have two arrays list1 and list2 which have objects with some properties; userId is the Id or unique property:

list1          


        

Answer 1

Here is a functionnal programming solution with underscore/lodash to answer your first question (intersection).

list1 = [ {userId:1234,userName:'XYZ'}, 
          {userId:1235,userName:'ABC'}, 
          {userId:1236,userName:'IJKL'},
          {userId:1237,userName:'WXYZ'}, 
          {userId:1238,userName:'LMNO'}
        ];

list2 = [ {userId:1235,userName:'ABC'},  
          {userId:1236,userName:'IJKL'},
          {userId:1252,userName:'AAAA'}
        ];

_.reduce(list1, function (memo, item) {
        var same = _.findWhere(list2, item);
        if (same && _.keys(same).length === _.keys(item).length) {
            memo.push(item);
        }
        return memo
    }, []);

I'll let you improve this to answer the other questions ;-)