The reference to the original array, now reversed. Note that the array is reversed in place, and no copy is made.

The reverse method transposes the elements of the calling array object in place, mutating the array, and returning a reference to the array.

reverse is intentionally generic; this method can be called on objects resembling arrays. Objects which do not contain a length property reflecting the last in a series of consecutive, zero-based numerical properties may not behave in any meaningful manner.

The following example creates an array items, containing three elements, then reverses the array. The call to reverse() returns a reference to the reversed array items.

const items = [1, 2, 3];
console.log(items); // [1, 2, 3]

items.reverse();
console.log(items); // [3, 2, 1]

The following example creates an array-like object obj, containing three elements and a length property, then reverses the array-like object. The call to reverse() returns a reference to the reversed array-like object obj.

const obj = {0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, length: 3};
console.log(obj); // {0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, length: 3}

Array.prototype.reverse.call(obj); //same syntax for using apply()
console.log(obj); // {0: 3, 1: 2, 2: 1, length: 3}

The reverse() method returns reference to the original array, so mutating the returned array will mutate the original array as well.

const numbers = [3, 2, 4, 1, 5];
const reversed = numbers.reverse();
// numbers and reversed are both in reversed order [5, 1, 4, 2, 3]
reversed[0] = 5;
console.log(numbers[0]); // 5

In case you want reverse() to not mutate the original array, but return a shallow-copied array like other array methods (e.g. map()) do, you can do a shallow copy before calling reverse(), using the spread syntax or Array.from().

const numbers = [3, 2, 4, 1, 5];
// [...numbers] creates a shallow copy, so reverse() does not mutate the original
const reverted = [...numbers].reverse();
reverted[0] = 5;
console.log(numbers[0]); // 3

• Array.prototype.join()
• Array.prototype.sort()
• TypedArray.prototype.reverse()