我在这里读到的答案有很多问题，使得它们在实际编程应用中价值有限。

First and foremost, you're going to want to have a way to control what it means for two items in the array to be "equal". The === comparison is not going to cut it if you're trying to figure out whether to update an array of objects based on an ID or something like that, which frankly is probably one of the most likely scenarios in which you will want a diff function. It also limits you to arrays of things that can be compared with the === operator, i.e. strings, ints, etc, and that's pretty much unacceptable for grown-ups.

其次，diff操作有三种状态结果:

在第一个数组中但不在第二个数组中的元素 两个数组共用的元素 在第二个数组中但不在第一个数组中的元素

我认为这意味着你需要不少于2个循环，但我愿意接受肮脏的技巧，如果有人知道如何将其减少到一个。

这里是我拼凑的一些东西，我想强调的是，我绝对不在乎它在旧版本的Microshaft浏览器中不起作用。如果您在IE这样的较差的编码环境中工作，那么您就可以自行修改它，使其在您无法满意的限制范围内工作。

Array.defaultValueComparison = function(a, b) {
    return (a === b);
};

Array.prototype.diff = function(arr, fnCompare) {

    // validate params

    if (!(arr instanceof Array))
        arr = [arr];

    fnCompare = fnCompare || Array.defaultValueComparison;

    var original = this, exists, storage, 
        result = { common: [], removed: [], inserted: [] };

    original.forEach(function(existingItem) {

        // Finds common elements and elements that 
        // do not exist in the original array

        exists = arr.some(function(newItem) {
            return fnCompare(existingItem, newItem);
        });

        storage = (exists) ? result.common : result.removed;
        storage.push(existingItem);

    });

    arr.forEach(function(newItem) {

        exists = original.some(function(existingItem) {
            return fnCompare(existingItem, newItem);
        });

        if (!exists)
            result.inserted.push(newItem);

    });

    return result;

};

我就遇到了这个问题，就是求两个简单数组的差值

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

// need ["c", "d"]

我不明白为什么不使用基本的for循环:

for(var i=0; i < a1.length; i++) {
  for(var j=0; j < a2.length; j++) {
    if(a1[i] == a2[j]) {
      a2.splice(j, 1);
    }
  }
}

这将返回所需的["c"， "d"]

[编辑]提议正上方，看到晚了。

不管怎样，有什么好的理由来避免这个简单的解决方案吗?

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"]。

转换为字符串对象类型:

[1, 1].toString() === [1, 1].toString(); // true

ES2015的函数方法

计算两个数组之间的差值是Set操作之一。这个术语已经表明应该使用本机Set类型，以便提高查找速度。不管怎样，当你计算两个集合之间的差值时，有三种排列:

[+left difference] [-intersection] [-right difference]
[-left difference] [-intersection] [+right difference]
[+left difference] [-intersection] [+right difference]

下面是反映这些排列的功能性解决方案。

离开的区别:

// small, reusable auxiliary functions const apply = f => x => f(x); const flip = f => y => x => f(x) (y); const createSet = xs => new Set(xs); const filter = f => xs => xs.filter(apply(f)); // left difference const differencel = xs => ys => { const zs = createSet(ys); return filter(x => zs.has(x) ? false : true ) (xs); }; // mock data const xs = [1,2,2,3,4,5]; const ys = [0,1,2,3,3,3,6,7,8,9]; // run the computation console.log( differencel(xs) (ys) );

正确的区别:

差异是微不足道的。这与翻转的参数不同。为了方便，你可以写一个函数:const differencer = flip(difference)。这是所有!

对称的区别:

现在我们有了左边和右边，实现对称的差异也变得微不足道:

// small, reusable auxiliary functions const apply = f => x => f(x); const flip = f => y => x => f(x) (y); const concat = y => xs => xs.concat(y); const createSet = xs => new Set(xs); const filter = f => xs => xs.filter(apply(f)); // left difference const differencel = xs => ys => { const zs = createSet(ys); return filter(x => zs.has(x) ? false : true ) (xs); }; // symmetric difference const difference = ys => xs => concat(differencel(xs) (ys)) (flip(differencel) (xs) (ys)); // mock data const xs = [1,2,2,3,4,5]; const ys = [0,1,2,3,3,3,6,7,8,9]; // run the computation console.log( difference(xs) (ys) );

我想这个例子是一个很好的起点，可以让你了解函数式编程的含义:

使用可以以许多不同方式组合在一起的构建块进行编程。

这就是我如何得到两个数组的不同。纯净干净。

它将返回一个包含[add list]和[remove list]的对象。

  function getDiff(past, now) {
        let ret = { add: [], remove: [] };
        for (var i = 0; i < now.length; i++) {
          if (past.indexOf(now[i]) < 0)
            ret['add'].push(now[i]);
        }
        for (var i = 0; i < past.length; i++) {
          if (now.indexOf(past[i]) < 0)
            ret['remove'].push(past[i]);
        }
        return ret;
      }