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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition
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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

by MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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The spread operator

A spread operator is represented by the ... token. A spread operator splits an iterable object into its individual values.

An iterable is an object that contains a group of values and implements the ES6 iterable protocol to let us iterate through its values. An array is an example of a built-in iterable object.

A spread operator can be placed wherever multiple function arguments or multiple elements (for array literals) are expected in code.

The spread operator is commonly used to spread the values of an iterable object into the arguments of a function. Let's take the example of an array and see how to split it into the arguments of a function.

To provide the values of an array as a function argument, you can use the ...

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