Get the element with the highest occurrence in an array

Question

I\'m looking for an elegant way of determining which element has the highest occurrence (mode) in a JavaScript array.

For example, in

[\'pear\', \'a         


        

Answer 1

Trying out a declarative approach here. This solution builds an object to tally up the occurrences of each word. Then filters the object down to an array by comparing the total occurrences of each word to the highest value found in the object.

const arr = ['hello', 'world', 'hello', 'again'];

const tally = (acc, x) => { 

  if (! acc[x]) { 
    acc[x] = 1;
    return acc;
  } 

  acc[x] += 1;
  return acc;
};

const totals = arr.reduce(tally, {});

const keys = Object.keys(totals);

const values = keys.map(x => totals[x]);

const results = keys.filter(x => totals[x] === Math.max(...values));