What do these three dots in React do?

Question

What does the ... do in this React (using JSX) code and what is it called?

Answer 1

The three dots in JavaScript are spread / rest operator.

Spread operator

The spread syntax allows an expression to be expanded in places where multiple arguments are expected.

myFunction(...iterableObj);

[...iterableObj, 4, 5, 6]

[...Array(10)]

Rest parameters

The rest parameter syntax is used for functions with variable number of arguments.

function(a, b, ...theArgs) {
  // ...
}

The spread / rest operator for arrays was introduced in ES6. There's a State 2 proposal for object spread / rest properties.

TypeScript also supports the spread syntax and can transpile that into older versions of ECMAScript with minor issues.