这个问题很老了，但仍然是javascript数组减法的热门问题，所以我想添加我正在使用的解决方案。适用于以下情况:

var a1 = [1,2,2,3]
var a2 = [1,2]
//result = [2,3]

下面的方法将产生预期的结果:

function arrayDifference(minuend, subtrahend) {
  for (var i = 0; i < minuend.length; i++) {
    var j = subtrahend.indexOf(minuend[i])
    if (j != -1) {
      minuend.splice(i, 1);
      subtrahend.splice(j, 1);
    }
  }
  return minuend;
}

需要注意的是，该函数不包括减数中没有被减数的值:

var a1 = [1,2,3]
var a2 = [2,3,4]
//result = [1]

var arrayDifference = function(arr1, arr2){
  if(arr1 && arr1.length){
    if(arr2 && arr2.length > 0){
      for (var i=0, itemIndex; i<arr2.length; i++){
        itemIndex = arr1.indexOf(arr2[i]);
        if(itemIndex !== -1){
          arr1.splice(itemIndex, 1);
        }
      }
    }
    return arr1;
  }
  return [];
};

arrayDifference([1,2,3,4,5], [1,5,6]);

类似于Ian Grainger的解决方案(但在打字稿中):

function findDiffs(arrayOne: string[], arrayTwo: string[]) {

    let onlyInArrayOne = []
    let onlyInArrayTwo = []
    let share = []
    let [arrayOneCopy, arrayTwoCopy] = [[...arrayOne], [...arrayTwo]]

    arrayOneCopy.sort(); arrayTwoCopy.sort()

    while (arrayOneCopy.length !== 0 && arrayTwoCopy.length !== 0) {
        if (arrayOneCopy[0] == arrayTwoCopy[0]) {
            share.push(arrayOneCopy[0])
            arrayOneCopy.splice(0, 1)
            arrayTwoCopy.splice(0, 1)
        }
        if (arrayOneCopy[0] < arrayTwoCopy[0]) {
            onlyInArrayOne.push(arrayOneCopy[0])
            arrayOneCopy.splice(0, 1)
        }
        if (arrayOneCopy[0] > arrayTwoCopy[0]) {
            onlyInArrayTwo.push(arrayTwoCopy[0])
            arrayTwoCopy.splice(0, 1)
        }
    }
    onlyInArrayTwo = onlyInArrayTwo.concat(arrayTwoCopy)
    onlyInArrayOne = onlyInArrayOne.concat(arrayOneCopy)

    return {
        onlyInArrayOne,
        onlyInArrayTwo,
        share,
        diff: onlyInArrayOne.concat(onlyInArrayTwo)
    }
}

// arrayOne: [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'm', 'y' ] 
// arrayTwo: [ 'c', 'b', 'f', 'h' ]
//
// Results: 
// { 
//    onlyInArrayOne: [ 'a', 'm', 'y' ],
//    onlyInArrayTwo: [ 'f', 'h' ],
//    share: [ 'b', 'c' ],
//    diff: [ 'a', 'm', 'y', 'f', 'h' ] 
// }

困难的方法(如果你想做一些比.indexOf更奇特的东西)

var difference = function (source, target) {
    return source.reduce(function (diff, current) { 
        if (target.indexOf(current) === -1) { 
            diff.push(current); 
        }

        return diff; 
    }, []);
}

简单的方法

var difference = function (source, target) {
    return source.filter(function (current) {
        return target.indexOf(current) === -1;
    });
}

所选的答案只对了一半。您必须比较数组的两种方式才能得到完整的答案。

const ids_exist = [
   '1234',
   '5678',
   'abcd',
]

const ids_new = [
  '1234',
  '5678',
  'efjk',
  '9999',
]

function __uniq_Filter (__array_1, __array_2) {
  const one_not_in_two = __array_1.filter(function (obj) {
    return __array_2.indexOf(obj) == -1
  })
  const two_not_in_one = __array_2.filter(function (obj) {
    return __array_1.indexOf(obj) == -1
  })
  return one_not_in_two.concat(two_not_in_one)
}

let uniq_filter = __uniq_Filter(ids_exist, ids_new)

console.log('uniq_filter', uniq_filter) // => [ 'abcd', 'efjk', '9999' ]

如果你不关心原始数组，编辑它们没有问题，那么这是一个更快的算法:

let iterator = arrayA.values()
let result = []
for (entryA of iterator) {
    if (!arrayB.includes(entryA)) {
        result.push(entryA)
    } else {
        arrayB.splice(arrayB.indexOf(entryA), 1) 
    }
}

result.push(...arrayB)
return result