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Object Destructuring in JavaScript
Unlocking the Power of Object Destructuring in JavaScript
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.