Function overloading in Javascript - Best practices

Question

What is the best way(s) to fake function overloading in Javascript?

I know it is not possible to overload functions in Javascript as in other languages. If I neede

Answer 1

As of July 2017, the following has been the common technique. Note that we can also perform type checking within the function.

function f(...rest){   // rest is an array
   console.log(rest.length);
   for (v of rest) if (typeof(v)=="number")console.log(v);
}
f(1,2,3);  // 3 1 2 3