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

I'm sorry but i can't comment your answers already due my reputation!...so, if you wanna modify the structure of your object, you must do like Thane Plummer says, but a little trick if you do not care where to put the item: it will be inserted on first position if you don't specify the number for the insertion.

This is wonderful if you want to pass a Json object for instance to a mongoDB function call and insert a new key inside the conditions you receive. In this case I gonna insert a item myUid with some info from a variable inside my code:

// From backend or anywhere
let myUid = { _id: 'userid128344'};
// ..
// ..

  let myrequest = { _id: '5d8c94a9f629620ea54ccaea'};
  const answer = findWithUid( myrequest).exec();

// ..
// ..

function findWithUid( conditions) {
  const cond_uid = Object.assign({uid: myUid}, conditions);
  // the object cond_uid now is:
  // {uid: 'userid128344', _id: '5d8c94a9f629620ea54ccaea'}
  // so you can pass the new object Json completly with the new key
  return myModel.find(cond_uid).exec();
}