How to Find an Object in an Array of Objects in JavaScript 📚✨

Learn to locate and filter JavaScript array records like a pro 🚀

In the everyday life of a developer, managing data is a common task. Whether it’s an array of users from a database 📊, a list of products from an online store 🛒, or an aggregation of tweets 🐦, mastery of data manipulation is key. Today, let’s delve into one very important aspect of it — locating and filtering records from a JavaScript array. 🕵️‍♂️

Did you ever find yourself lost amid a sea of data, looking for that one record? Have you been bamboozled by a barrage of records, wondering how to sift only the relevant ones? If yes, you’re in the right place. 📍

Consider an array of employees, like the one below:

const employees = [
    { id: 1, email: 'john.doe@example.com', name: 'John Doe'},
    { id: 2, email: 'jane.doe@example.com', name: 'Jane Doe'},
    { id: 3, email: 'jim.doe@example.com', name: 'Jim Doe'},
];

Throughout this tutorial, we’ll use this list in our examples to learn an efficient and elegant way of finding the needle in the haystack. 🧐

1. Finding the Index of an Object 🔍
JavaScript has a handy method, findIndex, that gets us the index of the first matching record in an array…