js prepend to array code example

Example 1: javascript prepend string to array

const names = ["Bob", "Cassandra"]

names.unshift("Alex")

names === ["Alex", "Bob", "Cassandra"]

Example 2: javascript prepend element to array

var a = [1, 2, 3, 4];
a.unshift(0);
a; // => [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

Example 3: unshift method in javascript

var name = [ "john" ];
name.unshift( "charlie" );
name.unshift( "joseph", "Jane" );
console.log(name);

//Output will be
[" joseph "," Jane ", " charlie ", " john "]

Example 4: insert element at beginning of array javascript

// Use unshift method if you don't mind mutating issue
// If you want to avoid mutating issue
const array = [3, 2, 1]

const newFirstElement = 4

const newArray = [newFirstElement].concat(array) // [ 4, 3, 2, 1 ]

console.log(newArray);

Example 5: prepend to array javascript

// Build an array of test data.
var data = [ "X" ];

// Unshift data onto the array. Unshift() prepends elements to
// the beginning of the given array. Note that it can take more
// than one argument. In the output, notice that when unshift()
// takes multiple arguments, they are prepended in a right-to-left
// order (mimicing their appearence in the arguments list).
data.unshift( "A" );
data.unshift( "B", "C" );

// Output resultant array.
console.log( data );

Example 6: prepend to js array

var a = [1, 2, 3, 4];
a.unshift(0);
a; // => [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]