You'd use.find():

function getBook(bookId) {  return bookIndex.find(function(book) { return book.id === bookId; });}

The callback to.find() should returntrue when the criteria are satisfied. When that happens,.find() returns that element of the array. If no elements match, it returnsundefined.

The.forEach() function is useful, but it really is for situations when you actually do want to perform some operation oneach element of the array.

You can usefilter and return object with that id.

var bookIndex = [{   id: '1',   title: 'First title',   description: 'This is my first title' }, {   id: '2',   title: 'Second title',   description: 'This is my second title' }]; function getBook(bookId) {    return bookIndex.filter((e) => { return parseInt(e.id) == parseInt(bookId)})[0]; };  console.log(getBook(2))

You could useArray#some()

Thesome() method tests whether some element in the array passes the test implemented by the provided function.

function getBook(bookId) {  // returns true or false if the book exists    return bookIndex.some(function (book) {        return bookId === book.id;    });};

For returning the book object, then you might use

function getBook(bookId) {  // returns the book with the index    var book;    bookIndex.some(function (b) {        if (bookId === b.id) {           book = b;           return true;        }    });    return book;};

i tought you where wondering how could you for loop and then return, and since every one witch answered you didn't used for each i desided to show you a foreach solution, hoping that this is what you had expected

var bookIndex = [    {        id: '1',        title: 'First title',        description: 'This is my first title'    }, {        id: '2',        title: 'Second title',        description: 'This is my second title'    }];function getBook(bookId) {    bookIndex.forEach( function (el) {        if (el.id === bookId) {          getBook1(el);        }    });}getBook('2');function getBook1(el) { var element = el;    console.log(element);}

In thebookIndex.forEach( function (el)you need to pass an argument to the function (the callback), witch you use for the forEach method. And this was your main mistake. This elment that i have passed called el is basically every element in your array witch isn't undefined or null. And since you can't just return something from the foreach, cause it returns in to the callback, not to the parrent function, in your casefunction getBook(index), i had to call another functuion in witch i can store the variable

• javascript
• arrays
• for-loop
• foreach