New Array Prototype Methods

While reading The State of JS 2022, I came across two new Array.prototype methods which I previously have not heard of. They are Array.prototype.at() and Array.prototype.findLast().

.at()

This is going to be very useful for returning a value at a particular index in the array without having to iterate through. This great improve the time complexity to O(1) which is the best.

An example from MDN:

const array = [5, 12, 8, 130, 44];

array.at(2); // 8

The .at() makes the code looks sweet, short and simple.

.findLast()

As we know, the .find() method is one of the most commonly used method to-date. The .findLast() is the opposite where it iterates the array in a reverse order. This is so useful if I want to search for a value that appear the last.

An example from MDN:

const array = [5, 12, 50, 130, 44];

array.findLast((item) => item > 45); // 130