Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· ktusznio

Destructuring arguments in Coffeescript

A traditional function might look like this:

createPost = (title, content, options = {}) ->
    category = options.category
    headline = options.headline

Using CoffeeScript's destructuring assignment makes this nicer:

createPost = (title, content, options = {}) ->
    {category, headline} = options

And finally, if you don't need the explicit options variable, you can even do:

createPost = (title, content, {category, headline} = {}) ->

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Note: The default value of "{}" is important to prevent type errors when no "options" argument is provided.

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