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Randy Rivera
Randy Rivera

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Setting Default Parameters for Your Functions

In order to help us create more flexible functions, ES6 introduces default parameters for functions.

  • Ex:
const increment = (number, value = 1) =>  number + value;
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console.log(increment(5)); will display 6
console.log(increment(5, 2)); will display 7
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As you can see in the example above, we added a default parameter so that it will add 1 to number if value is not specified.

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