Why does javascript map function return undefined?

Question

My code

 var arr = [\'a\',\'b\',1];
 var results = arr.map(function(item){
                if(typeof item ===\'string\'){return item;}  
               });
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Answer 1

Filter works for this specific case where the items are not modified. But in many cases when you use map you want to make some modification to the items passed.

if that is your intent, you can use reduce:

var arr = ['a','b',1];
var results = arr.reduce((results, item) => {
    if (typeof item === 'string') results.push(modify(item)) // modify is a fictitious function that would apply some change to the items in the array
    return results
}, [])