How to get function parameter names/values dynamically?

Question

Is there a way to get the function parameter names of a function dynamically?

Let’s say my function looks like this:

function doSomething(param1, par         


        

Answer 1

The proper way to do this is to use a JS parser. Here is an example using acorn.

const acorn = require('acorn');    

function f(a, b, c) {
   // ...
}

const argNames = acorn.parse(f).body[0].params.map(x => x.name);
console.log(argNames);  // Output: [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]

The code here finds the names of the three (formal) parameters of the function f. It does so by feeding f into acorn.parse().