Arrays: Adding at the beginning of an array

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You might want to add an item to the beginning of the array.

In this case you can use the unshift() method:

const fruits = ['banana', 'pear', 'apple']
fruits.unshift('orange')

fruits //[ 'orange', 'banana', 'pear', 'apple' ]

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Number of items in an array
2: Create a new array from an existing array
3: Adding an item to an existing array
4: ▶︎ Adding at the beginning of an array
5: Adding multiple items to the array
6: Removing an item from an array
7: Modifying an existing array without mutating it
8: Arrays of arrays
9: Filling an array
10: Array destructuring
11: Check if an array contains a specific value
12: Array Recipes