Convert object array to hash map, indexed by an attribute value of the Object

Question

Use Case

The use case is to convert an array of objects into a hash map based on string or function provided to evaluate and use as the key in the hash map and val

Answer 1

This is what I'm doing in TypeScript I have a little utils library where I put things like this

export const arrayToHash = (array: any[], id: string = 'id') => 
         array.reduce((obj, item) =>  (obj[item[id]] = item , obj), {})

usage:

const hash = arrayToHash([{id:1,data:'data'},{id:2,data:'data'}])

or if you have a identifier other than 'id'

const hash = arrayToHash([{key:1,data:'data'},{key:2,data:'data'}], 'key')