iteration - Iterate an array as a pair (current, next) in JavaScript

Question

In the question Iterate a list as pair (current, next) in Python, the OP is interested in iterating a Python list as a series of current, next pairs. I have the same problem, but I'd like to do it in JavaScript in the cleanest way possible, perhaps using lodash.

It is easy to do this with a simple for loop, but it doesn't feel very elegant.

for (var i = 0; i < arr.length - 1; i++) {
  var currentElement = arr[i];
  var nextElement = arr[i + 1];
}

Lodash almost can do this:

_.forEach(_.zip(arr, _.rest(arr)), function(tuple) {
  var currentElement = tuple[0];
  var nextElement = tuple[1];
})

The subtle problem with this that on the last iteration, nextElement will be undefined.

Of course the ideal solution would simply be a pairwise lodash function that only looped as far as necessary.

_.pairwise(arr, function(current, next) {
  // do stuff 
});

Are there any existing libraries that do this already? Or is there another nice way to do pairwise iteration in JavaScript that I haven't tried?

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Clarification: If arr = [1, 2, 3, 4], then my pairwise function would iterate as follows: [1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], not [1, 2], [3, 4]. This is what the OP was asking about in the original question for Python.

Answer 1

Just make the "ugly" part into a function and then it looks nice:

arr = [1, 2, 3, 4];

function pairwise(arr, func){
    for(var i=0; i < arr.length - 1; i++){
        func(arr[i], arr[i + 1])
    }
}

pairwise(arr, function(current, next){
    console.log(current, next)
})

You can even slightly modify it to be able to make iterate all i, i+n pairs, not just the next one:

function pairwise(arr, func, skips){
    skips = skips || 1;
    for(var i=0; i < arr.length - skips; i++){
        func(arr[i], arr[i + skips])
    }
}

pairwise([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], function(current,next){
    console.log(current, next) // displays (1, 3), (2, 4), (3, 5) , (4, 6), (5, 7)
}, 2)