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Object Destructuring in JavaScript

Unlocking the Power of Object Destructuring in JavaScript

Patrick Karsh
3 min readFeb 27, 2024

Object destructuring is a powerful and elegant feature introduced in ECMAScript 6 (ES6) that allows you to extract values from objects and assign them to distinct variables in a clean and concise manner. It revolutionizes the way we work with object data in JavaScript.

The Old Way: Accessing Properties

Before object destructuring, accessing values within an object often involved multiple lines of code:

Enter Object Destructuring

With object destructuring, the same operation can be simplified into a single statement:

In this example:

  • The curly braces {} on the left-hand side signal the use of object destructuring.
  • The variable names inside the braces match the property names within the person object.

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Patrick Karsh
Patrick Karsh

Written by Patrick Karsh

NYC-based Ruby on Rails and Javascript Engineer leveraging AI to explore Engineering. https://linktr.ee/patrickkarsh

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