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Conditional properties

const obj = {
  ...(condition && { prop: value })
}

Default values

If you wanna have values with variants in an object you usually do this, which is annoying:

color: {
  default: 'gray',
  light: 'lightGray',
  dark: 'darkGray'
}

Instead, do this:

color: Object.assign('gray', {
  light: 'lightGray',
  dark: 'darkGray'
})

Now you can access the default value with color instead of color.default. Thanks to Max Stoiber for this tip.

Destructuring an array

@swyx shares this great tip on Twitter, again proving that I will never learn all of the secrets of objects in JavaScript.

const getFirstLast = (array) => {
  const { 0: first, length: len, [len - 1]: last } = array

  return { first, last }
}

getFirstLast('apple')
// {first: "a", last: "e"}
getFirstLast([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
// {first: 1, last: 6}