JavaScript Array includes() Method

Array.includes() is a method that checks if an element is present in an array, returning boolean value, true if found, false otherwise.

Syntax:

array.includes(searchElement, start)

Example: In this example we are using array includes to find specific element on our given array.

Javascript




let languages = ['HTML', 'CSS', 'JavaScript', 'React.js'];
  
let search1 = 'HTML';
let search2 = 'Node.js';
  
console.log(languages.includes(search1));
console.log(languages.includes(search2));


Output

true
false


JS 2016 or ECMAScript 2016

JavaScript 2016 (ES2016) is a modified version of ES2015 in which they introduced some new features like JavaScript Exponentiation (**) operator, JavaScript Exponentiation assignment (**=), and Array..includes() method for array element presence checking, enhancing calculations, and array operations, JavaScript 2016 is also known as ECMAScript 2016.

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