return first item in array javascript code example

Example 1: javascript take first element of array

const array = [1,2,3,4,5];
const firstElement = array.shift();

// array -> [2,3,4,5]
// firstElement -> 1

Example 2: javascript get first element of array

let array = [1,2,3] // makes your array
array[0] // returns first element of your array.

Example 3: javascript get first element of array

let array = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"];

// Both first1 and first2 have the same value.
let [first1] = array;
let first2 = array[0];

Example 4: javascript get first element of array

let mylist = ['one','two','three','last']
mylist[0],mylist[1],mylist[2],mylist[3]//this is called indexing and slicing in python
//in javascript it called getting elements in array