Get the length of a Map in JavaScript

You can use the size property to get the length of a Map object. The size property returns the number of elements in the Map object.

const map = new Map()

console.log(map.size) // 0

map.set('name', 'Atta')
map.set('age', 34)

console.log(map.size) // 2

The size property returns an integer value representing how many entries the Map object has.

Unlike the array's length property, the map's size property is read-only and can not be changed:

const map = new Map([
  ['name', 'Atta'],
  ['age', 34]
])

console.log(map.size) // 2

map.size = 6

console.log(map.size) // 2 --> Remains the same

This is not the case with the length property of the array, which is writeable and can be set to a new value to increase or decrease the size of the array:

const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]

// Truncate to 3-element
numbers.length = 3

console.log(numbers) 
// [1, 2, 3]

// Increase size to 5
numbers.length = 5

console.log(numbers) 
// [ 1, 2, 3, <2 empty items> ]

Read this article to learn more about the Map object and how to create collections of key-value pairs in JavaScript.

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