How can I add a key/value pair to a JavaScript object?

Question

Here is my object literal:

var obj = {key1: value1, key2: value2};

How can I add field key3 with value3 to the ob

Answer 1

Performance

Today 2020.01.14 I perform tests on MacOs HighSierra 10.13.6 on Chrome v78.0.0, Safari v13.0.4 and Firefox v71.0.0, for chosen solutions. I divide solutions to mutable (first letter M) and immutable (first letter I). I also provide few immutable solutions (IB,IC,ID/IE) not yet published in answers to this question

Conclusions

• fastest mutable solutions are much faster than fastest immutable (>10x)
• classic mutable approach like obj.key3 = "abc" (MA,MB) is fastest
• for immutable solutions the {...obj, key3:'abc'} and Object.assign (IA,IB) are fastest
• surprisingly there are immutable solutions faster than some mutable solutions for chrome (MC-IA) and safari (MD-IB)

Details

In snippet below there are presended tested solution, you can prefrom test on your machine HERE

var o = {
    key1: true,
    key2: 3,
};

var log= (s,f)=> console.log(`${s} --> ${JSON.stringify(f({...o}))}`);



function MA(obj) {
  obj.key3 = "abc";
  return obj;
}

function MB(obj) {
  obj['key3'] = "abc";
  return obj;
}

function MC(obj) {
  Object.assign(obj, {key3:'abc'});
  return obj;
}

function MD(obj) {
  Object.defineProperty(obj, 'key3', {
    value: "abc",       // undefined by default
    enumerable: true,      // false by default
    configurable: true,    // false by default
    writable: true         // false by default
  });
  return obj;
}

function IA(obj) {
  return {...obj, key3:'abc'};
}

function IB(obj) {
  return Object.assign({key3:'abc'}, obj);
}

function IC(obj) {
  let ob= JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj))
  ob.key3 = 'abc';
  return ob;
}


function ID(obj) {
	let ob= Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(obj));
  ob.key3 = 'abc';
  return ob;
}

function IE(obj) {
	return Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(obj).concat([['key3','abc']]))
}



log('MA',MA);
log('MB',MB);
log('MC',MC);
log('MD',MD);
log('IA',IA);
log('IB',IB);
log('IC',IC);
log('ID',ID);
log('IE',IE);

This snippet only presents code - it not perform tests itself!