Most efficient way to prepend a value to an array

Question

Assuming I have an array that has a size of N (where N > 0), is there a more efficient way of prepending to the array that would not require O(N

Answer 1

Calling unshift only returns the length of the new array. So, to add an element in the beginning and to return a new array, I did this:

let newVal = 'someValue';
let array = ['hello', 'world'];
[ newVal ].concat(array);

or simply with spread operator:

[ newVal, ...array ]

This way, the original array remains untouched.