Javascript's map function in Go

If you have written any javascript, you have probably used the array function map. Here is a short example:

const dogs = [
  {
    name: "One",
    breed: "Retriever",
  },
  {
    name: "Two",
    breed: "Beagle",
  },
];

const dogNames = dogs.map((dog) => {
  return dog.name;
});

console.log(dogNames);
// output: ["One", "Two"]

This is pretty handy if you have an array and you wanna trim it down or extract some of the data into a new array.

Now let’s see how we can do the same thing in go:

dogs := []dog{
  {
    Name:  "One",
    Breed: "Retriever",
  },
  {
    Name:  "Two",
    Breed: "Beagle",
  },
}
dogNames := func(dogs []dog) []string {
  var dogNames []string
  for _, d := range dogs {
    dogNames = append(dogNames, d.Name)
  }

  return dogNames
}(dogs)

fmt.Println(dogNames)
// output: [One Two]

There you have it, a simple and fast way to create a new array based on another one with just the data you need.

Thank you for reading.