javascript datascrutture library code example

Example 1: Destructuring Assignment

const HIGH_TEMPERATURES = {
  yesterday: 75,
  today: 77,
  tomorrow: 80
};

//ES6 assignment syntax
const {today, tomorrow} = HIGH_TEMPERATURES;

//ES5 assignment syntax
const today = HIGH_TEMPERATURES.today;
const tomorrow = HIGH_TEMPERATURES.tomorrow;

console.log(today); // 77
console.log(tomorrow); // 80
console.log(yesterday); // "ReferenceError: yesterday is not defined" as it should be.

Example 2: javascript destructing

/*
* On the left-hand side, you decide which values to unpack from the right-hand
* side source variable.
* 
* This was introduced in ES6
*/
const x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
const [a, b] = x
console.log(a) // prints out: 1
console.log(b) // prints out: 2