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Destructuring Assignment Cheat Sheet

With destructuring assignment, variables are “extracted” from an object, string, or array.

They are declared using curly or square brackets, mirroring the structure of the object or array they are being extracted from.

Below are various examples using destructuring.

Destructuring and value manipulation:

JavaScript

1let [a, b] = [ 3, 5];
2[a, b] = [a + 2, b + 8]; // a = 5; b = 13;
3[a, b] = [b, a]; 
4[a, b] // a = 13; b = 5;

Extra variables on the left are assigned undefined, while extra values on the right are ignored:

JavaScript

1const [f, n, k] = [2, 78]
2console.log(f, n, k)  // f = 2; n = 78; k = undefined;
3
4const [c, o] = [1, 12, 96]
5console.log(c, o) // c = 1; o = 12;

You can skip elements using extra commas:

JavaScript

1const [w,, e,, r] = [1, 12, 96, 2, 78, 79]
2console.log(w, e, r) // w = 1; e = 96; r = 78;

Combining the remaining variables into one — the rest operator ...:

JavaScript

1const [t, ...u] = [1, 12, 96, 2, 78]
2console.log(t, u) // t = 1; u = [ 12, 96, 2, 78 ];

Function return values:

JavaScript

1function getTrigonometric(x) {
2    return [Math.sin(x), Math.cos(x)]
3}
4const [x, y] =  getTrigonometric(129) 
5console.log(x, y) // x = -0.19347339203846847  y = -0.9811055226493881

In loops:

JavaScript

1const obj = {a: "one", b: "two"}
2for(const [key, value] of Object.entries(obj)) {
3    console.log(key, value)
4}
5// a one
6// b two

Nested arrays:

JavaScript

1const [[i,d], [p,s]] = [[1, 12], [96, 2]]
2console.log(i,d, p,s) // i = 1; d = 12; p = 96; s = 2;

Destructuring strings and objects:

JavaScript

1const [first, ...other] = "Moon";
2console.log(first, other) //  first = M; other = [ 'o', 'o', 'n' ];
3
4const {min, max} = Math;
5console.log(min(1, 4), max(8, 24)) // min - 1 max - 24

Renaming variables during destructuring:

JavaScript

1const object = {a: "your", b: "letter"}
2const {a: one, b: two} = object;
3console.log(one, two) //one = your; two = letter;