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

You can use JSON class methods to achieve it as follows

const foo = {
   x: "bar",
   y: "baz"
};

const oof = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(foo, ['x','y']));
// output -> {x: "bar", y: "baz"}

Pass properties that need to be added to the resulting object as second argument to stringify function in an array format.

MDN Doc for JSON.stringify