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Find the length of the longest string in an array

JavaScript

const findLongest = (words) => Math.max(...words.map((el) => el.length))

TypeScript

const findLongest = (words: string[]): number => Math.max(...words.map((el) => el.length))

Example

findLongest(['always', 'look', 'on', 'the', 'bright', 'side', 'of', 'life']) // 6