How to do equivalent of LINQ SelectMany() just in javascript

Question

Unfortunately, I don\'t have JQuery or Underscore, just pure javascript (IE9 compatible).

I\'m wanting the equivalent of SelectMany() from LINQ functionality.

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Answer 1

// you can save this function in a common js file of your project
function selectMany(f){ 
    return function (acc,b) {
        return acc.concat(f(b))
    }
}

var ex1 = [{items:[1,2]},{items:[4,"asda"]}];
var ex2 = [[1,2,3],[4,5]]
var ex3 = []
var ex4 = [{nodes:["1","v"]}]

Let's start

ex1.reduce(selectMany(x=>x.items),[])

=> [1, 2, 4, "asda"]

ex2.reduce(selectMany(x=>x),[])

=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

ex3.reduce(selectMany(x=> "this will not be called" ),[])

=> []

ex4.reduce(selectMany(x=> x.nodes ),[])

=> ["1", "v"]

NOTE: use valid array (non null) as intitial value in the reduce function