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Destructuring

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Destructuring is a way for us to extract data from arrays and objects without having to manually create variables. Take this object for example.

Javascript (babel-node)
let person = {
    name: "Ryan",
    age: 30,
    location: "Toronto"
};

An example of the destructuring syntax would be this.

Javascript (babel-node)
let { age : personAge } = person;
console.log(personAge);

In the destructuring expression the left-hand value is the key from the object, and the right is the new variable we would like to create. Don’t want to create a new ...