What’s the best way to loop through a set of elements in JavaScript?

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Here’s a nice form of a loop I often use. You create the iterated variable from the for statement and you don’t need to check the length property, which can be expensive specially when iterating through a NodeList. However, you must be careful, you can’t use it if any of the values in array could be “falsy”. In practice, I only use it when iterating over an array of objects that does not contain nulls (like a NodeList). But I love its syntactic sugar.

var list = [{a:1,b:2}, {a:3,b:5}, {a:8,b:2}, {a:4,b:1}, {a:0,b:8}];

for (var i=0, item; item = list[i]; i++) {
  // Look no need to do list[i] in the body of the loop
  console.log("Looping: index ", i, "item" + item);
}

Note that this can also be used to loop backwards.

var list = [{a:1,b:2}, {a:3,b:5}, {a:8,b:2}, {a:4,b:1}, {a:0,b:8}];
    
for (var i = list.length - 1, item; item = list[i]; i--) {
  console.log("Looping: index ", i, "item", item);
}

ES6 Update

for...of gives you the name but not the index, available since ES6

for (const item of list) {
    console.log("Looping: index ", "Sorry!!!", "item" + item);
}

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