Check if an array contains any element of another array in JavaScript

Question

I have a target array [\"apple\",\"banana\",\"orange\"], and I want to check if other arrays contain any one of the target array elements.

For example:

Answer 1

What about using a combination of some/findIndex and indexOf?

So something like this:

var array1 = ["apple","banana","orange"];
var array2 = ["grape", "pineapple"];

var found = array1.some(function(v) { return array2.indexOf(v) != -1; });

To make it more readable you could add this functionality to the Array object itself.

Array.prototype.indexOfAny = function (array) {
    return this.findIndex(function(v) { return array.indexOf(v) != -1; });
}

Array.prototype.containsAny = function (array) {
    return this.indexOfAny(array) != -1;
}

Note: If you'd want to do something with a predicate you could replace the inner indexOf with another findIndex and a predicate