{"id":6528,"date":"2025-07-14T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=6528"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:55:32","slug":"how-javascripts-at-method-makes-array-indexing-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/how-javascripts-at-method-makes-array-indexing-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"How JavaScript\u2019s at() method makes array indexing easier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allthingssmitty.com\/2025\/05\/19\/how-javascript-at-method-makes-array-indexing-easier\/\">A little reminder from Matt Smith<\/a> that getting the last item in an Array is easier now:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">const<\/span> fruits = &#91;<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"apple\"<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"banana\"<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"cherry\"<\/span>];\n\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/* newer, easier *\/<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">console<\/span>.log(fruits.at(<span class=\"hljs-number\">-1<\/span>));\n\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/* older, harder *\/<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">console<\/span>.log(fruits&#91;fruits.length - <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>]);\n<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little reminder from Matt Smith that getting the last item in an Array is easier now:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[368,366,3],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-at-2","tag-arrays","tag-javascript"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pexels-photo-209728.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1262&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}