Everything you need to know about Javascript Destructuring

In this blog, you will learn everything you need to know about javascript destructuring.

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Why does Destructuring exist in javascript?

Because it solves our problem. Let's see an example.

This is a normal object containing the names of 4 people.

const names = {
    taylor: 'Taylor Swift',
    shawn: 'Shawn Mendes',
    zayn: 'Zayn Malik',
    halsey: 'Halsey',
}

Now if I ask you to print all the file names manually to the console, how would you do that. Possibly like this:

console.log(names.taylor)
console.log(names.shawn)
console.log(names.zayn)
console.log(names.halsey)

It works. But it is so annoying to use this dot notation. But how can we make this better?

const taylor = names.taylor
const shawn = names.shawn
const zayn = names.zayn
const halsey = names.halsey

console.log(taylor)
console.log(shawn)
console.log(zayn)
console.log(halsey)

Much better. But we are still repeating the same task. What if we can declare and assign the object properties on variables on a single?

It would be better right?. This is where Object destructuring helps us. So instead we can do something like this :

const { taylor, shawn, zayn, halsey} = names

console.log(taylor)
console.log(shawn)
console.log(zayn)
console.log(halsey)

Wow! That is way better than before.

But, how is it working?

It is so simple. We are just pulling out the properties from the object and storing them in a variable. And the variable name will be the same as the property name by default. You can change that like this.

const { taylor, shawn, zayn: zaynMalik, halsey} = names

What about array destructuring?

Array destructuring works in a similar way with some differences. We know data are stored in an array with indexes. They are sequential. So, while destructuring you have to maintain the order. For example:

const albums = ['Lover', 'Evermore', 'Red', 'Fearless']

const [lover, ever] = arr

And also arrays don't have a property for values. So, you can just give whatever variable name you want.

Let's see some use cases of Object destructuring and array destructuring.

Array destrucutring

• Swapping variables

let a = 1;
let b = 3;

[a, b] = [b, a];
console.log(a); // 3
console.log(b); // 1

• Ignoring some returned values

function f() {
  return [1, 2, 3];
}

const [a, , b] = f();
console.log(a); // 1
console.log(b); // 3

• Default values

let a, b;

[a=5, b=7] = [1];
console.log(a); // 1
console.log(b); // 7

• Create sub array with Rest parameters.

const albums = ['Lover', 'Evermore', 'Red', 'Fearless']

const [, ...albums2] = albums

console.log(albums2) // ['Evermore', 'Red', 'Fearless']

Object destrucutring

• Unpacking fields from objects passed as a function parameter

It is really useful for react props.

const anjan = {
        name: 'Anjan', age: 20
}

const statement = ({name, age}) => {
        return `My name is ${name}. I am ${age} years old.`
}

statement(anjan)

• Nested Object destructuring

const profile: { 
       name: 'Anjan', 
       age: 20,
       professional: {
          profession: 'Full Stack Software Engineer',
       }
}

const {name, age, professional: {profession}} = profile

console.log(professional) // error
console.log(profession) // Full Stack Software Engineer

• Default values

In any case, the property is undefined

const {a = 10, b = 5} = {a: 3};

console.log(a); // 3
console.log(b); // 5

• Nested object and array destructuring

const taylor = {
    name: 'Taylor Swift',
    age: 31,
    address: {
        city: 'New York',
        country: 'USA',
    },
    albums: ['Lover', 'Evermore', 'Red', 'Fearless'],
}

const {
    name,
    age,
    address: { city },
    albums: [lover, ...rest],
} = taylor

console.log(name) // Taylor Swift
console.log(age) // 31
console.log(city) // New York
console.log(lover) // Lover
console.log(rest) // [ 'Evermore', 'Red', 'Fearless' ]

That's all you need to know about javascript destructuring.

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