Finding a mode in an array of numbers.

mode.js

var array = [1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 12, 12, 17],
    c = {}, // counters
    s = []; // sortable array

for (var i=0; i<array.length; i++) {
    c[array[i]] = c[array[i]] || 0; // initialize
    c[array[i]]++;
} // count occurrences

for (var key in c) {
    s.push([key, c[key]])
} // build sortable array from counters

s.sort(function(a, b) {return b[1]-a[1];});

var firstMode = parseInt(s[0][0]);
console.log(firstMode);