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JavaScript's ...spread Operator


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Last tended Jan 20, 2019
JavaScript
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Web Development

Spreading the elements from one array and copying them into is one of those handy shorthands for moving data around in JavaScript.

I started looking into it after seeing <ComponentName {...props} /> in lots of React projects, and couldn't figure out what on earth was going on with the props syntax.

Mystery solved...

JavaScript's spread operator copies the content of one array, and dumps them out into another

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