Enums in Javascript with ES6

Question

I\'m rebuilding an old Java project in Javascript, and realized that there\'s no good way to do enums in JS.

The best I can come up with is:

const C         


        

Answer 1

Here is my approach, including some helper methods

export default class Enum {

    constructor(name){
        this.name = name;
    }

    static get values(){
        return Object.values(this);
    }

    static forName(name){
        for(var enumValue of this.values){
            if(enumValue.name === name){
                return enumValue;
            }
        }
        throw new Error('Unknown value "' + name + '"');
    }

    toString(){
        return this.name;
    }
}

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import Enum from './enum.js';

export default class ColumnType extends Enum {  

    constructor(name, clazz){
        super(name);        
        this.associatedClass = clazz;
    }
}

ColumnType.Integer = new ColumnType('Integer', Number);
ColumnType.Double = new ColumnType('Double', Number);
ColumnType.String = new ColumnType('String', String);