Let’s go back to the phi function for a moment.
function phi(table) {
return (table[3] * table[0] – table[2] * table[1]) /
Math.sqrt((table[2] + table[3]) *
(table[0] + table[1]) *
(table[1] + table[3]) *
(table[0] + table[2]));
}
One of the reasons this function is awkward to read is that we have a binding pointing at our array, but we’d much prefer to have bindings for the elements of the array, that is, let n00 = table[0] and so on. Fortunately, there is a succinct way to do this in JavaScript.
function phi([n00, n01, n10, n11]) {
return (n11 * n00 – n10 * n01) /
Math.sqrt((n10 + n11) * (n00 + n01) * (n01 + n11) * (n00 + n10));
}
This also works for bindings created with let, var, or const. If you know the value you are binding is an array, you can use square brackets to “look inside” of the value, binding its contents.
A similar trick works for objects, using braces instead of square brackets.
let {name} = {name: “Faraji”, age: 23};
console.log(name);
// → Faraji\
Note that if you try to destructure null or undefined, you get an error, much as you would if you directly try to access a property of those values
Source: Haverbeke Marijn (2018), Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming,
No Starch Press; 3rd edition.