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Accessing properties of an array of objects

Given:

[{
    'id':1,
    'name':'john'
},{
    'id':2,
    'name':'jane'
}........,{
    'id':2000,
    'name':'zack'
}]

What’s the best way to get:

['john', 'jane', ...... 'zack']

Must I loop through and push item.name to another array, or is there a simple function to do it?

Answer 1

If your array of objects is items, you can do:

var items = [{
  id: 1,
  name: 'john'
}, {
  id: 2,
  name: 'jane'
}, {
  id: 2000,
  name: 'zack'
}];

var names = items.map(function(item) {
  return item['name'];
});

console.log(names);
console.log(items);

Documentation: map()