Appending to an object

Question

I have an object that holds alerts and some information about them:

var alerts = { 
    1: { app: \'helloworld\', message: \'message\' },
    2: { app: \'hel         


        

Answer 1

You should really go with the array of alerts suggestions, but otherwise adding to the object you mentioned would look like this:

alerts[3]={"app":"goodbyeworld","message":"cya"};

But since you shouldn't use literal numbers as names quote everything and go with

alerts['3']={"app":"goodbyeworld","message":"cya"};

or you can make it an array of objects.

Accessing it looks like

alerts['1'].app
=> "helloworld"