How to copy the properties of an inner object to the outer
Problem: I had a tweet
object that for some reason related to the architecture of the app contained the actual tweet data into another object assigned to its data
property.
Imagine this:
let tweet = {
data: {
id: 1,
content: 'test'
}
}
I wanted to move those inner properties on the top level object:
let tweet = {
id: 1,
content: 'test'
}
without manually copying those properties over, because the minute I add another property, I introduce a bug.
So here’s what I did:
tweet = Object.assign(tweet, tweet.data)
It’s the same technique you can use to copy properties to another object, but applied in a slightly different way.
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