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

function mode(arr){
  return arr.reduce(function(counts,key){
    var curCount = (counts[key+''] || 0) + 1;
    counts[key+''] = curCount;
    if (curCount > counts.max) { counts.max = curCount; counts.mode = key; }
    return counts;
  }, {max:0, mode: null}).mode
}