30-seconds-of-code/snippets/defaults.md

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defaults	object,intermediate

Assigns default values for all properties in an object that are undefined.

• Use Object.assign() to create a new empty object and copy the original one to maintain key order, use Array.prototype.reverse() and the spread operator ... to combine the default values from left to right, finally use obj again to overwrite properties that originally had a value.

const defaults = (obj, ...defs) => Object.assign({}, obj, ...defs.reverse(), obj);

defaults({ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { b: 6 }, { a: 3 }); // { a: 1, b: 2 }