How to merge Maps using JavaScript

Merge Map Objects using JavaScript #

To merge Maps, use the spread operator (...) to unpack the values of two or more Maps into an array and pass them into the Map() constructor, e.g. new Map([...map1, ...map2]). The new Map will contain the key-value pairs from all provided Map objects.

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const map1 = new Map([['name', 'Tom']]);
const map2 = new Map([['age', 30]]);

const map3 = new Map([...map1, ...map2]);

// 👇️ {'name' => 'Tom', 'age' => 30}
console.log(map3);

We used the spread operator (...) to unpack the key-value pairs from 2 Map objects into an array.

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const map1 = new Map([['name', 'Tom']]);

// 👇️ [ ['name', 'Tom'] ]
console.log([...map1]);

The array contains nested arrays consisting of key-value pairs.

The last step is to pass the array to the Map() constructor, which takes an iterable as a parameter.

With the values in place, the example looks like:

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const map3 = new Map([['name', 'Tom'], ['age', 30]])

The iterable, the Map takes must consist of key-value pairs, e.g. a two dimensional array or another Map object.

This process could be repeated with as many Map objects as necessary.

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const map1 = new Map([['name', 'Tom']]);
const map2 = new Map([['age', 30]]);
const map3 = new Map([['country', 'Chile']]);

const map4 = new Map([...map1, ...map2, ...map3]);
// 👇️ {'name' => 'Tom', 'age' => 30, 'country' => 'Chile'}
console.log(map4);

Note that the insertion order of keys is preserved. If you need to re-order the key-value pairs, simply switch the order in which the spread operator (...) is used.

How to merge Maps using JavaScript

Merge Map Objects using JavaScript #

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Borislav Hadzhiev