Array symmetric difference
JavaScript, Array, Math · Oct 22, 2020

Returns the symmetric difference between two arrays, without filtering out duplicate values.
- Create a
Set
from each array to get the unique values of each one. - Use
Array.prototype.filter()
on each of them to only keep values not contained in the other.
const symmetricDifference = (a, b) => { const sA = new Set(a), sB = new Set(b); return [...a.filter(x => !sB.has(x)), ...b.filter(x => !sA.has(x))]; }; symmetricDifference([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 4]); // [3, 4] symmetricDifference([1, 2, 2], [1, 3, 1]); // [2, 2, 3]