What is the _.drop() method in Lodash?

Overview

The _.drop() method in Lodash creates a slice of an array by dropping the n number of elements from the beginning of the array.

Syntax

_.drop(array, n)

Parameter values

This method accepts the following parameters:

• array: This is the array that needs to be sliced.
• n: This is the number of elements that need to be dropped.

Return value

This method returns a slice of an array.

Code example

Let’s look at an example of the _.drop() method in the code snippet below:

Code explanation

In the HTML tab:

• In line 5, we import the lodash script.

In the JavaScript tab:

• In line 2, we create an array and initialize it with a few values.
• In line 5, we create a variable n and initialize it with 3.
• In line 8, we use the _.drop() method to drop n elements from the beginning of the array.
• In line 11, we print the output to the console.

Output

We see a slice in which n number of elements have been dropped from the beginning of the array.