Value assigned to primitive will be lost

Question

If I have an array of objects, and loop through them assigning a value to an attribute for each one, WebStorm warns me:

Values assigned to primitive w

Answer 1

I just had the same issue.

You can also ask WebStorm to disable inspection for the next line, but I decided to use a for of loop instead:

for (person of people) {
    person.surname = 'Baz';
}

It actually made my code more readable as a result so I was happy.