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Have you noticed that you can short-circuiting the spread operator?

WTF is short-circuiting in Programming?


Short-circuiting is where an expression is stopped being evaluated as soon as its outcome is determined.

How its work with spread operator?

Basically, we can short-circuit the spread operator using the && operator.
So, if the condition is met, the spread operator will be executed and the object's properties will be spread out. Otherwise, it will be ignored.

Let's see an example:

const isActiveOnMenu = true;

const pastaCarbonara = {
  ingredients: ['pasta', 'bacon', 'eggs', 'cheese', 'garlic'],
  price: 10.0
};

const menu = {
  ...isActiveOnMenu && pastaCarbonara
};

console.log(menu);
// { ingredients: ['pasta', 'bacon', 'eggs', 'cheese', 'garlic'], price: 10.0 }

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As you can see, in the example above, the pasta carbonara object will only get spread when the isActiveOnMenu is true and since logical AND (&&) evaluates operands from left to right, returning immediately with the value of the first falsy operand it encounters; if all values are truthy, the value of the last operand is returned.

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