Prepend text to beginning of string

Question

var mystr = "Doe";
mystr = "John " + mystr;

Wouldn't this work for you?

You could do it this way ..

var mystr = 'is my name.';
mystr = mystr.replace (/^/,'John ');

console.log(mystr);

disclaimer: http://xkcd.com/208/

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Since the question is about what is the fastest method, I thought I'd throw up add some perf metrics.

TL;DR The winner, by a wide margin, is the + operator, and please never use regex

https://jsperf.com/prepend-text-to-string/1

ES6:

let after = 'something after';
let text = `before text ${after}`;

you could also do it this way

"".concat("x","y")

If you want to use the version of Javascript called ES 2015 (aka ES6) or later, you can use template strings introduced by ES 2015 and recommended by some guidelines (like Airbnb's style guide):

const after = "test";
const mystr = `This is: ${after}`;

Another option would be to use join

var mystr = "Matayoshi";
mystr = ["Mariano", mystr].join(' ');