Accept any numbers of parameters
Written byPhuoc Nguyen
Created
01 Mar, 2021
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JavaScript
In the old days, we can use the
`arguments` variable to get the dynamic parameters that are passed to a function.js
const sum = function () {
return Array.from(arguments).reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
};
sum(1); // 1
sum(1, 2); // 3
sum(1, 2, 3); // 6
sum(1, 2, 3, 4); // 10However, most of us aren't aware about the existence of
`arguments`. It has some drawbacks such as- It's not an array, so we usually have to convert it to array first in order to use
`Array`methods - More importantly, it isn't available in arrow functions
The ES6 rest parameter (
`...`) provides an easier way to work with an unknown numbers of parameters. The `sum` function above can be written as following:js
const sum = (...params) => params.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
sum(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); // 15#See also
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