Counting the occurrences / frequency of array elements

You can use an object to hold the results:

const arr = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
const counts = {};

for (const num of arr) {
  counts[num] = counts[num] ? counts[num] + 1 : 1;
}

console.log(counts[5], counts[2], counts[9], counts[4]);

So, now your counts object can tell you what the count is for a particular number:

console.log(counts[5]); // logs '3'

If you want to get an array of members, just use the keys() functions

keys(counts); // returns ["5", "2", "9", "4"]

const occurrences = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4].reduce(function (acc, curr) {
  return acc[curr] ? ++acc[curr] : acc[curr] = 1, acc
}, {});

console.log(occurrences) // => {2: 5, 4: 1, 5: 3, 9: 1}

const arr = [2, 2, 5, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 9];

function foo (array) {
  let a = [],
    b = [],
    arr = [...array], // clone array so we don't change the original when using .sort()
    prev;

  arr.sort();
  for (let element of arr) {
    if (element !== prev) {
      a.push(element);
      b.push(1);
    }
    else ++b[b.length - 1];
    prev = element;
  }

  return [a, b];
}

const result = foo(arr);
console.log('[' + result[0] + ']','[' + result[1] + ']')
console.log(arr)

If using underscore or lodash, this is the simplest thing to do:

_.countBy(array);

Such that:

_.countBy([5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4])
=> Object {2: 5, 4: 1, 5: 3, 9: 1}

As pointed out by others, you can then execute the _.keys() and _.values() functions on the result to get just the unique numbers, and their occurrences, respectively. But in my experience, the original object is much easier to deal with.

Counting the occurrences / frequency of array elements

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