Discussion on: 5 Uses for the Spread Operator

I find rest parameters super useful for writing wrapper functions. For a super simple example, I often like to define small logger functions as wrappers around console.log() that always add certain context, such as a label that tells me where the log was issued:

const log = (...args) => console.log('MyFile.js ::', ...args)

// ... later
const payload = {
  name: 'Ken',
  job: 'Web dev'
}
log('Sending:', payload)
// => MyFile.js :: Sending: { "name": "Ken", "job": "Web dev" }

This is a pretty trivial example, but I've used it for much more complicated cases where I basically always use the same default arguments for calls to library functions with lots of arguments, and I want a wrapper that supplies all but the last couple arguments for me. I'll write a wrapper that gathers arguments into a rest array, then spreads them into the end of my call to the library function, like I did with console.log above