随着ES6的到来，带有sets和splat操作符(当时只在Firefox中工作，请检查兼容性表)，你可以编写以下一行代码:

var a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'];
var b = ['a', 'b'];
var b1 = new Set(b);
var difference = [...new Set(a.filter(x => !b1.has(x)))];

结果是["c"， "d"]。

如果你的数组包含对象，如果你想比较一个属性，就会变得有点困难。

幸运的是，lodash使用_contains和_.pluck使这非常简单:

var list1 = [{id: 1},{id: 2}];
var list1 = [{id: 1},{id: 2}, {id: 3}];

//es6
var results = list2.filter(item => {
  return !_.contains(_.pluck(list1, 'id'), item.id);
});

//es5
var results = list2.filter(function(item){
  return !_.contains(_.pluck(list1, 'id'), item.id);
});

//results contains [{id: 3}]

根据之前的答案…取决于你是想要一个高效的还是“漂亮的联机”解决方案。

一般有三种方法……

"manual iterative" (using indexOf) - naive with O(n2) complexity (slow) var array_diff_naive = function(a,b){ var i, la = a.length, lb = b.length, res = []; if (!la) return b; else if (!lb) return a; for (i = 0; i < la; i++) { if (b.indexOf(a[i]) === -1) res.push(a[i]); } for (i = 0; i < lb; i++) { if (a.indexOf(b[i]) === -1) res.push(b[i]); } return res; } "abstract iterative" (using filter and concat library methods) - syntactic sugar for manual iterative (looks nicer, still sucks) var array_diff_modern = function(a1,a2){ return a1.filter(function(v) { return !a2.includes(v); } ) .concat(a2.filter(function(v) { return !a1.includes(v);})); } "using hashtable" (using object keys) - much more efficient - only O(n), but has slightly limited range of input array values var array_diff_hash = function(a1,a2){ var a = [], diff = []; for (var i = 0; i < a1.length; i++) { a[a1[i]] = true; } for (var i = 0; i < a2.length; i++) { if (a[a2[i]]) { delete a[a2[i]]; } else { a[a2[i]] = true; } } for (var k in a) { diff.push(k); } return diff; }

在jsperf上可以看到 https://jsperf.com/array-diff-algo

对我来说，把它作为部分函数处理比较容易。很惊讶没有看到函数式编程的解决方案，这是我在ES6中的:

const arrayDiff = (a, b) => {
  return diff(b)(a);
}

const contains = (needle) => (array) => {
  for (let i=0; i < array.length; i++) {
    if (array[i] == needle) return true;
  }

  return false;
}

const diff = (compare) => {
    return (array) => array.filter((elem) => !contains(elem)(compare))
}

ES6中一个更简洁的方法是以下解决方案。

var a1 = ['a', 'b'];
var a2 = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'];

区别

a2.filter(d => !a1.includes(d)) // gives ["c", "d"]

十字路口

a2.filter(d => a1.includes(d)) // gives ["a", "b"]

析取联合(对称差分)

[ ...a2.filter(d => !a1.includes(d)),
  ...a1.filter(d => !a2.includes(d)) ]

function array_diff(array1, array2) {
   let returnArray = [];
   $.each(array1, function(index, value) {
     let findStatus = false;
     if (Array.isArray(array2)) {
       $.each(array2, function(index2, value2) {
         if (value == value2) findStatus = true;
       });
     } else {
       if (value == array2) {
         findStatus = true;
       }
     }

     if (findStatus == false) {
       returnArray.push(value);
     }
   });
   return returnArray;
}