How to check if a rectangle contains other one in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to check if a rectangle contains other one only using single line of code in JavaScript. This is a one-line JavaScript code snippet that uses one of the most popular ES6 features => Arrow Function.

Let's define this short function:

// Returns true if `a` contains `b`
// (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) are top-left and bottom-right corners
const contains = (a, b) => (a.x1 <= b.x1 && a.y1 <= b.y1 && a.x2 >= b.x2 && a.y2 >= b.y2);