What are the latest operators added to JavaScript?

Javascript Web Development Front End Technology

The latest operators added to JavaScript are spread operator and rest.

Rest operator

With rest parameter, you can represent number of arguments as an array. ES6 brought rest parameter to ease the work of developers. For arguments objects, rest parameters are indicated by three dots … and preceds a parameter.

Example

Let’s see the following code snippet to define rest parameter

<html>
   <body>
      <script>
         function addition(…numbers) {
            var res = 0;
            numbers.forEach(function (number) {
               res += number;
            });
            return res;
         }
         document.write(addition(3));
         document.write(addition(9,10,11,12,13));
      </script>
   </body>
</html>

Spread Operator

It allow the expression expand to multiple arguments, elements, variables, etc.

Example

You can try to run the following code to learn how to work with spread operator

Live Demo

<html>
   <body>
      <script>
         var a, b, c, d, e, f, g;
         a = [10,20];
         b = "rank";
         c = [30, "points"];
         d = "run"

         // concat method.
         e = a.concat(b, c, d);

         // spread operator
         f = [...a, b, ...c, d];
         document.write(e);
         document.write("<br>"+f);
      </script>
   </body>
</html>