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date: 2020-10-12
id: 0ad60ce3-4e34-490e-a565-a0ce330e6fc8
title: JavaScript Maps
---
# Description
For sane people [ES6](20201030093404-es6) comes with a <s>half assed
"solution"</s> handy data structure called `Map` which prevents the diy
shenanigans below.
# Syntax
## Basic operation
### Single entries
``` javascript
const map = new Map();
const KEY = {};
map.set(KEY, 123);
console.log(map.get(KEY)); // 123
console.log(map.has(KEY)); // true
map.delete(KEY);
console.log(map.has(KEY)); // false
```
### Array
``` javascript
const map = new Map([
[ 1, 'one' ],
[ 2, 'two' ],
[ 3, 'three' ],
]);
```
## Iteration
### Keys
``` javascript
const map = new Map([
[false, 'no'],
[true, 'yes'],
]);
for (const key of map.keys()) {
console.log(key);
}
```
### Values
``` javascript
const map = new Map([
[false, 'no'],
[true, 'yes'],
]);
for (const value of map.values()) {
console.log(value);
}
```
### Entries
``` javascript
const map = new Map([
[false, "no"],
[true, "yes"],
]);
for (const entry of map.entries()) {
console.log(entry[0], entry[1]);
}
```
### Converting to Arrays
The [spread](20201014094144-spread) operator (…) can turn an
[iterable](20201014092625-javascript_iterables) into an
[Array](20200826201029-arrays)
``` javascript
const map = new Map().set(false, 'no').set(true, 'yes');
console.log([...map.keys()]) // false, true
```
``` javascript
const map = new Map().set(false, 'no').set(true, 'yes');
console.log([...map])
```