prepend javascript array code example

Example 1: javascript add new array element to start of array

var colors = ["white","blue"];
colors.unshift("red"); //add red to beginning of colors
// colors = ["red","white","blue"]

Example 2: javascript prepend string to array

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

names.unshift("Alex")

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

Example 3: javascript prepend element to array

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

Example 4: 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 );