filter an array with another array

Filtering an array with another array is useful when there are many elements that need to be removed.

In the code example below, we want to keep clothes that are shirts or sweaters.

let clothes = ['shirt', 'sweater', 'sweater', 'shirt', 'pants', 'pants', 'underwear'];
const clothesFilters = ['shirt', 'sweater'];

// filter removes an element if the returned value is false
// otherwise it will keep it
clothes = clothes.filter(function (element) {
  // includes checks if the element exist on the array it was called on
  return clothesFilters.includes(element);
});

console.log(clothes); // ["shirt", "sweater", "sweater", "shirt"]

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