[travisd]

I’d flag this if I saw this in a code review. It’s to cute and hard to see what’s happening. Would much rather just see someone prefix with an underscore if they don’t need the variable (const [id, _email, name] = loadUserInfo(…); is preferable to const [id, , name]).

[kamranjon]

Unfortunately eslint would likely flag this as unused vars, so typically you would not do this as you've described. Object destructuring is a bit more forgiving and can be a nice alternative: const {id, name} = loadUserInfo() - assuming you wrote loadUserInfo and are in control of the return value.

[artdigital]

You can easily add a rule to eslint that makes it not complain _xxx for unused variables: https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/no-unused-vars#argsigno...

[postalrat]

Why on earth would you prefer they create variables that aren't used.

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