How to get a subset of a javascript object's properties

Question

Say I have an object:

elmo = { 
  color: \'red\',
  annoying: true,
  height: \'unknown\',
  meta: { one: \'1\', two: \'2\'}
};

I want to m

Answer 1

There is nothing like that built-in to the core library, but you can use object destructuring to do it...

const {color, height} = sourceObject;
const newObject = {color, height};

You could also write a utility function do it...

const cloneAndPluck = function(sourceObject, keys) {
    const newObject = {};
    keys.forEach((obj, key) => { newObject[key] = sourceObject[key]; });
    return newObject;
};

const subset = cloneAndPluck(elmo, ["color", "height"]);

Libraries such as Lodash also have _.pick().