What is the _.chunk() method in Lodash?
Overview
The _.chunk() method in Lodash is used to reduce an array into multiple chunks, where each chunk is also an array of a specified size.
Syntax
_.chunk(array, size)
Parameters
This method accepts the following parameters:
array: This is the array to be reduced.size: This is the size of the chunk.
Return value
This method returns an array of chunks.
Example
Let’s look at an example of the _.chunk() method in the code snippet below:
Explanation
In the HTML tab:
- Line 5: We import the
lodashscript.
In the JavaScript tab:
- Line 2: We create an array and initialize it with a few values.
- Line 5: We create a variable
sizeand initialize it with2. - Lines 8: We use the
_.chunk()method to reduce the array into small chunks. - Lines 11: We print the output on the console.
Output
- In the output, we see an array of chunks.
- The first two chunks contain 2 elements respectively, and the last chunk contains the remaining elements of the array.