Counting Duplicates In Sub Array and assigning to property

Question

I have an array of objects with a nested array in which I would like to count duplicate occurances and map them to a counter property.

Input Array:

initialArr = [
              {
               id: 99,
               days: [{date: '2022-08-01'},
                      {date: '2022-08-03'},
                      {date: '2022-08-03'},
                      {date: '2022-08-01'}]
              },
              {
               id: 100,
               days: [{date: '2022-08-01'},
                      {date: '2022-08-02'},
                      {date: '2022-08-02'}]
               }
              ]

Expected output array with counter property:

outputArr = [
              {
               id: 99,
               days: [{date: '2022-08-01', count: 2},
                      {date: '2022-08-03', count: 2},
                     ]
              },
              {
               id: 100,
               days: [{date: '2022-08-01', count: 1},
                      {date: '2022-08-02', count: 2},
               }
              ]

What is the best way to go about this? I have tried a couple methods using map and reduce but I'm running into difficulties with the nesting of the arrays. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Working inside to out, start with the days array...

function removeDupDays(days) {
  // this produces { dateString: [{date: 'dateString'}, ...
  const grouped = days.reduce((acc, el) => {
    if (!acc[el.date]) acc[el.date] = [];
    acc[el.date].push(el);
    return acc;
  }, {});
  return Object.keys(grouped).map(date => {
    return { date, count: grouped[date].length };
  });
}

Use that in a function fixes object's days prop

// given an object with a days prop, remove dup days
function removeObjectDupDays(object) {
  return { ...object, days: removeDupDays(object.days) };
}

Map that over the initial array...

const arrayWithoutDupDays = initialArr.map(removeObjectDupDays);