The .push method can take multiple arguments. You can use the spread operator to pass all the elements of the second array as arguments to .push:
>>> a.push(...b)
If your browser does not support ECMAScript 6, you can use .apply instead:
>>> a.push.apply(a, b)
Or perhaps, if you think it's clearer:
>>> Array.prototype.push.apply(a,b)
Please note that all these solutions will fail with a stack overflow error if array b is too long (trouble starts at about 100,000 elements, depending on the browser).
If you cannot guarantee that b is short enough, you should use a standard loop-based technique described in the other answer.
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The .push method can take multiple arguments. You can use the spread operator to pass all the elements of the second array as arguments to .push:
>>> a.push(...b)
If your browser does not support ECMAScript 6, you can use .apply instead:
>>> a.push.apply(a, b)
Or perhaps, if you think it's clearer:
>>> Array.prototype.push.apply(a,b)
Please note that all these solutions will fail with a stack overflow error if array b is too long (trouble starts at about 100,000 elements, depending on the browser).
If you cannot guarantee that b is short enough, you should use a standard loop-based technique described in the other answer.
Update 2018: A better answer is a newer one of mine: a.push(...b). Don't upvote this one anymore, as it never really answered the question, but it was a 2015 hack around first-hit-on-Google :)
For those that simply searched for "JavaScript array extend" and got here, you can very well use Array.concat.
var a = [1, 2, 3];
a = a.concat([5, 4, 3]);
Concat will return a copy the new array, as thread starter didn't want. But you might not care (certainly for most kind of uses this will be fine).
There's also some nice ECMAScript 6 sugar for this in the form of the spread operator:
const a = [1, 2, 3];
const b = [...a, 5, 4, 3];
(It also copies.)
Hi there!
I'm new to JavaScript and was learning about arrays today and saw that the instructor only added an array to another array. Is it possible to add something that is not an array into an array? Iyes, how can I do that?
Thanks in advance!