How to group or merge this array of objects in javascript?

Question

I have an array of objects like below for example.

{name: \"Mc Donald\", quantity: 4, maleCount: 1, femaleCount: 0}
{name: \"KFC\", quantity: 9, maleCou         


        

Answer 1

You can use forEach() loop and add to new array. You can pass empty object as thisArg parameter that you can use as this in your callback function and in second forEach context of this will still be the same as in first callback function because of arrow function.

var data = [{"name":"Mc Donald","quantity":4,"maleCount":1,"femaleCount":0},{"name":"KFC","quantity":9,"maleCount":1,"femaleCount":0},{"name":"KFC","quantity":9,"maleCount":1,"femaleCount":0},{"name":"Mc Donald","quantity":4,"maleCount":0,"femaleCount":1},{"name":"KFC","quantity":9,"maleCount":0,"femaleCount":1},{"name":"KFC","quantity":9,"maleCount":1,"femaleCount":0},{"name":"KFC","quantity":9,"maleCount":0,"femaleCount":1},{"name":"KFC","quantity":9,"maleCount":0,"femaleCount":1}]
var result = [], keys = ['quantity', 'maleCount', 'femaleCount']

data.forEach(function(e) {
  if(!this[e.name]) result.push(this[e.name] = e);
  else keys.forEach(k => this[e.name][k] += e[k])
}, {})

console.log(result)