How to determine if Javascript array contains an object with an attribute that equals a given value?

Question

I have an array like

vendors = [{
    Name: \'Magenic\',
    ID: \'ABC\'
  },
  {
    Name: \'Microsoft\',
    ID: \'DEF\'
  } // and so on... 
];
         


        

Answer 1

My approach to solving this problem is to use ES6 and creating a function that does the check for us. The benefit of this function is that it can be reusable through out your project to check any array of objects given the key and the value to check.

ENOUGH TALK, LET'S SEE THE CODE

Array

const ceos = [
  {
    name: "Jeff Bezos",
    company: "Amazon"
  }, 
  {
    name: "Mark Zuckerberg",
    company: "Facebook"
  }, 
  {
    name: "Tim Cook",
    company: "Apple"
  }
];

Function

const arrayIncludesInObj = (arr, key, valueToCheck) => {
  let found = false;

  arr.some(value => {
    if (value[key] === valueToCheck) {
      found = true;
      return true; // this will break the loop once found
    }
  });

  return found;
}

Call/Usage

const found = arrayIncludesInObj(ceos, "name", "Tim Cook"); // true

const found = arrayIncludesInObj(ceos, "name", "Tim Bezos"); // false