How to destructure into dynamically named variables in ES6?

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It’s not impossible to destructure with a dynamic key. To prevent the problem of creating dynamic variables (as Ginden mentioned) you need to provide aliases.

const user = { 
  id: 42, 
  displayName: "jdoe",
  fullName: { 
      firstName: "John",
      lastName: "Doe"
  }
};

const fields = [ 'id', 'fullName' ];
const object = {};

const {[fields[0]]: id, [fields[1]]: fullName} = user;

console.log(id); // 42
console.log(fullName); // { firstName: "John", lastName: "Doe" }

To get around the problem of having to define static aliases for dynamic values, you can assign to an object’s dynamic properties. In this simple example, this is the same as reverting the whole destructuring, though 🙂

const user = { 
  id: 42, 
  displayName: "jdoe",
  fullName: { 
      firstName: "John",
      lastName: "Doe"
  }
};

const fields = [ 'id', 'fullName' ];
const object = {};

({[fields[0]]: object[fields[0]], [fields[1]]: object[fields[1]]} = user);

console.log(object.id); // 42
console.log(object.fullName); // { firstName: "John", lastName: "Doe" }

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