Remove empty elements from an array in Javascript

Question

How do I remove empty elements from an array in JavaScript?

Is there a straightforward way, or do I need to loop through it and remove them manually?

Answer 1

Removing all empty elements

If an array contains empty Objects, Arrays, and Strings alongside other empty elements, we can remove them with:

const arr = [ [], ['not', 'empty'], {}, { key: 'value' }, 0, 1, null, 2, "", "here", " ", 3, undefined, 3, , , , , , 4, , 4, , 5, , 6, , , ]

let filtered = JSON.stringify(
  arr.filter((obj) => {
    return ![null, undefined, ''].includes(obj)
  }).filter((el) => {
    return typeof el != "object" || Object.keys(el).length > 0
  })
)

console.log(JSON.parse(filtered))

Simple compacting (removing empty elements from an array)

With ES6:

const arr = [0, 1, null, 2, "", 3, undefined, 3, , , , , , 4, , 4, , 5, , 6, , , ,]

let filtered = arr.filter((obj) => { return ![null, undefined].includes(obj) })

console.log(filtered)

With plain Javascript ->

var arr = [0, 1, null, 2, "", 3, undefined, 3, , , , , , 4, , 4, , 5, , 6, , , ,]

var filtered = arr.filter(function (obj) { return ![null, undefined].includes(obj) })

console.log(filtered)