Is it possible to destructure onto an existing object? (Javascript ES6)

Question

For example if I have two objects:

var foo = {
  x: \"bar\",
  y: \"baz\"
}

and

var oof = {}

and I want

Answer 1

This is kind of cheating, but you can do something like this...

const originalObject = {
  hello: 'nurse',
  meaningOfLife: 42,
  your: 'mom',
};

const partialObject = (({ hello, your }) => {
  return { hello, your };
})(originalObject);

console.log(partialObject); // ​​​​​{ hello: 'nurse', your: 'mom' }​​​​​

In practice, I think you'd rarely want to use that though. The following is MUCH more clear... but not nearly as fun.

const partialObject = {
  hello: originalObject.hello,
  your: originalObject.your,
};

Another completely different route, which includes mucking with the prototype (careful now...):

if (!Object.prototype.pluck) {
  Object.prototype.pluck = function(...props) {
    return props.reduce((destObj, prop) => {
      destObj[prop] = this[prop];

      return destObj;
    }, {});
  }
}

const originalObject = {
  hello: 'nurse',
  meaningOfLife: 42,
  your: 'mom',
};

const partialObject2 = originalObject.pluck('hello', 'your');

console.log(partialObject2); // { hello: 'nurse', your: 'mom' }