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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Posted by Brendan Whiting
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Treehouse Moderator 82,128 Points

ES6 key assignment? Can't remember name of this feature

I vaguely remember there's a new feature in ES6 where I can dynamically assign the key of an object from the name of a variable, using square brackets. Something like:

let object = { [keyname]: value }

I can't find it on google because I can't remember what the feature is called.

Here is my use case btw:

I have some code where I'm repeating certain logic to pass an object into a method. It would be great if I could make a generic helper function to factor this out, but when I tried that I couldn't figure out how to have the key of the object computed dynamically.

 updateSearchOrigin(latlng: LatLng) {
    const searchOrigin = mapLatLngToGeoPoint(latlng);
    this.userDataRef
      .update({ searchOrigin })
      .catch(error => {
        this.userDataRef.set({ searchOrigin })
      });
  }

  updateSearchDestination(latlng: LatLng) {
    const searchDestination = mapLatLngToGeoPoint(latlng);
    this.userDataRef
      .update({ searchDestination })
      .catch(error => {
        this.userDataRef.set({ searchDestination })
      });
  }

  updateTimeTarget(searchTimeTarget: string) {
    this.userDataRef
      .update({ searchTimeTarget })
      .catch(error => {
        this.userDataRef.set({ searchTimeTarget })
      });
  }

  updateDatetime(date: string) {
    const searchDatetime = new Date(date);
    this.userDataRef
      .update({ searchDatetime })
      .catch(error => {
        this.userDataRef.set({ searchDatetime })
      })
  }

2 Answers

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Hi Brendan,

That's right, in ES6 you can use a variable to define a key name in an object using the square brackets, as per your example...

const keyName = "manufacturer";

carObject = {
[keyName]: "Toyota"
};

console.log(carObject.manufacturer); // Will output "Toyota" to your console
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