Split a Javascript Array into Chunks

Damion Davy
2 min readDec 7, 2022

Do you have a large JavaScript array that you want to split into smaller chunks for easier processing? In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use the built-in array method .slice() to split a JavaScript array into chunks, using Type<T>[] as input and returning Type<T>[][] as output.

To split a JavaScript array into chunks, we can use the .slice() method, which returns a new array that contains a portion of the original array. The .slice() method takes two arguments: the starting index and the ending index of the portion of the array to be returned.

For example, to split an array arr into two equal chunks, we can use the following code:

const chunk1 = arr.slice(0, arr.length / 2);
const chunk2 = arr.slice(arr.length / 2, arr.length);

The chunk1 array will contain the first half of the original arr array, and the chunk2 array will contain the second half of the original arr array.

We can use a loop to split the array into multiple chunks of equal size. The loop should iterate over the elements of the original array, using the .slice() method to extract each chunk and store it in a new array.

Here’s an example of how to split an array into chunks of a specific size:

const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
const chunkSize = 3…

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Damion Davy

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