Can someone explain how this works?

JavaScript
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var index = [0,0,2,2]
var uniq = [...new Set(index)];
console.log(uniq) //[0,2]

This code removes duplicated entries of the array, I do not understand how the …new and set work together to achieve this

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That’s the Set object, which is relatively new in JS:

You create a new Set using the new operator. You can pass the constructor an array and it will automatically add the elements in the array to the Set. Since items in a Set must be unique the duplicates in the array are automatically removed.

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A Set is a data structure in JS, it’s find of like an array but no duplicate values are allowed. So, new Set(index) creates a set out of your data (removing the duplicates). Then, spreading them out coverts them back to an array.

You can think of it this way:

var index = [0,0,2,2]
var nonDuplicateSet = new Set(index);
var nonDuplicateArray = [...nonDuplicateSet];
var uniq = nonDuplicateArray;
console.log(uniq) //[0,2]