A guide to destructuring in JavaScript – Piccalilli
April 16, 2025
If you’ve spent plenty of time wading through modern JavaScript, odds are you’ve seen enough ellipses (…) to put even the most brooding 90s role-playing game protagonist to shame. I wouldn’t fault you for finding them a little confusing. Granted, I wouldn’t fault you for finding anything about JavaScript confusing, but I’ve always thought those ellipses were uniquely unintuitive at a glance. It doesn’t help that you’ll frequently encounter these little weirdos in the context of “destructuring assignment,” which is a strange syntax in and of itself.
A guide to one of JavaScript’s more useful if not always intuitive features, destructuring.
