How to set up this duplication function in javascript?

Question

This is what I need to make work in JavaScript:

[1,2,3,4,5].duplicate(); // [1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5]

Best practices? Ideas?

What are you asking for? How to write the content of `duplicate` or how to make it so that you can custom define a method `duplicate` on an array object? — Frank V, Jun 24 '15 at 13:28

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '15 at 13:28

Use concat on the same array. It'll duplicate the elements of the array.

The concat() method returns a new array comprised of the array on which it is called joined with the array(s) and/or value(s) provided as arguments.

// Define method on prototype so that it can be directly called on array
Array.prototype.duplicate = function() {
    return this.concat(this);
};

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