I have an array of Date() objects in javascript and I want to count the number of events on each day.
Here is an example:
What I have is:
Array [ Date 2014-12-04T10:30:20.000Z, Date 2014-12-05T11:04:58.056Z, Date 2014-12-05T11:04:58.056Z, Date 2014-12-05T11:04:58.056Z ]
What I want is:
Array [{date: '2014-12-04', counts: 1}, {date: '2014-12-05', counts: 3}]
Thanks a lot!
Max
Basic answer:
var arr = [], // fill it with array with your data
results = {}, rarr = [], i, date;
for (i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
// get the date
date = [arr[i].getFullYear(),arr[i].getMonth(),arr[i].getDate()].join("-");
results[date] = results[date] || 0;
results[date]++;
}
// you can always convert it into an array of objects, if you must
for (i in results) {
if (results.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
rarr.push({date:i,counts:results[i]});
}
}
These can be made much easier with lodash functions, and Array.forEach() in ES5
You much better off having a simple object with the keys as the date and the value as the count. I've added a simple pad function that prefixes a zero where the number is a single digit as per your output requirements.
function pad(n) {
return n.toString().length == 1 ? '0' + n : n;
}
function getCount(arr) {
var obj = {};
for (var i = 0, l = arr.length; i < l; i++) {
var thisDate = arr[i];
var day = pad(thisDate.getDate());
var month = pad(thisDate.getMonth() + 1);
var year = thisDate.getFullYear();
var key = [year, day, month].join('-');
obj[key] = obj[key] || 0;
obj[key]++;
}
return obj;
}
getCount(arr); // Object { 2014-04-12: 1, 2014-05-12: 3 }
I came across the same issue and found this solution which uses Map() `
calc = (obj) => {
const orders = []
const dates_map = new Map()
//iterate through all the objects inside the orders array
orders.forEach(order => {
// format and get the date
const date = new Date(order.created_at).toLocaleDateString('en-GB')
//check if the date key exists in the Map() and save it in a temp
const temp = dates_map.get(date) || false
// if it does not exist
if (temp) {
// clone the object
const previous = {...temp}
// increase counter
previous.count += 1
dates_map.set(date, previous)
}else{
//create new object to avoid overwriting
const result = {}
result.count = 1
dates_map.set(date, result)
}
})
console.log(dates_map)
}
And this is the output
Output: Map(3) {
'08/05/2021' => { count: 2 },
'09/05/2021' => { count: 1 },
'11/05/2021' => { count: 2,}
}
`
