An alternative route is to use regex to strip everything except vowels. Then count the length of the remaining string. This avoids iteration altogether.

const vowelCount = s => s.replace(/[^aeiou]/gi, '').length

console.log(vowelCount('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'))

The regex is /[^aeiou]/gi which means match everything that's NOT (^) in the set (aeiou), matching globally (g flag) and without regard to case (i flag). string.replace() then uses this pattern to replace all matching characters with a blank string. What remains are your vowels.

An alternative route is to use string.replace() and Regular Expressions to strip everything but the vowels from the string. Then count the length of the resulting string. This avoids iteration altogether.

const vowelCount = s => s.replace(/[^aeiou]/gi, '').length

console.log(vowelCount('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'))

The regex is /[^aeiou]/gi which means match everything that's NOT (^) in the set (aeiou), matching globally (g flag) and without regard to case (i flag). string.replace() then uses this pattern to replace all matching characters with a blank string. What remains are your vowels.