const fields = ['email', 'password'];
const objFields = {};
fields.forEach(value => {
objFields[value] = '';
});
console.log(objFields);
// Outputs {email: "", password: ""}
I want to achieve the same result but without having to initialize an empty object.
Actually my case is that I want to set initial state of a React component.
class App extends Component {
fields = ['email', 'password'];
state = {
fields: // the one liner code here that should return the object created from fields array,
};
...
expected result would be
// state = {fields: {email: "", password: ""}}
Whenever you're looking for reducing an array of values to one value, you're looking for .reduce()
state = {
fields: fields.reduce((acc, key) => ({...acc, [key]: ''}), {}),
};
You need to transform your array which contains keys into a real object.
To do it you have many possibilites, but you still have to do something, there is no magical trick.
My favorite soluce is to use a function to insert into your Utilitary class. So it's easy to read and re-usable.
number 1 : The function
function initializeKeys(keys, initialValue, object) {
return keys.reduce((tmp, x) => {
tmp[x] = initialValue;
return tmp;
}, object);
}
const objFields = initializeKeys(['email', 'password'], '', {
otherKey: 'a',
});
console.log(objFields);
number 2 : The forEach
const fields = ['email', 'password'];
const objFields = {};
fields.forEach(value => {
objFields[value] = '';
});
console.log(objFields);
number 3 : The reduce
const fields = ['email', 'password'];
const objFields = {
...fields.reduce((tmp, x) => {
tmp[x] = '';
return tmp;
}, {}),
};
console.log(objFields);
You could map objects and assign all to a single object.
const
fields = ['email', 'password'],
object = Object.assign({}, ...fields.map(key => ({ [key]: '' })));
console.log(object);