JavaScript Object.entries() Method Example

Object.entries() method returns an array containing all the object own properties, as an array of [key, value] pairs.

Example - Iterating through an Object

  // using Object Literals
  var user = {
    firstName : 'Ramesh',
    lastName : 'Fadatare',
    emailId : '[email protected]',
    age : 29
}

function testObjectEntriesMethod(){
    for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(user)) {
        console.log(`${key}: ${value}`);
      }
}

testObjectEntriesMethod();

Output:

firstName: Ramesh
lastName: Fadatare
emailId: [email protected]
age: 29

Example - Converting an Object to a Map

const obj = { foo: 'bar', baz: 42 }; 
const map = new Map(Object.entries(obj));
console.log(map); // Map { foo: "bar", baz: 42 }

More Examples

const obj = { foo: 'bar', baz: 42 };
console.log(Object.entries(obj)); // [ ['foo', 'bar'], ['baz', 42] ]

// array like object
const obj = { 0: 'a', 1: 'b', 2: 'c' };
console.log(Object.entries(obj)); // [ ['0', 'a'], ['1', 'b'], ['2', 'c'] ]

// array like object with random key ordering
const anObj = { 100: 'a', 2: 'b', 7: 'c' };
console.log(Object.entries(anObj)); // [ ['2', 'b'], ['7', 'c'], ['100', 'a'] ]

// getFoo is property which isn't enumerable
const myObj = Object.create({}, { getFoo: { value() { return this.foo; } } });
myObj.foo = 'bar';
console.log(Object.entries(myObj)); // [ ['foo', 'bar'] ]

// non-object argument will be coerced to an object
console.log(Object.entries('foo')); // [ ['0', 'f'], ['1', 'o'], ['2', 'o'] ]

// returns an empty array for any primitive type, since primitives have no own properties
console.log(Object.entries(100)); // [ ]

// iterate through key-value gracefully
const obj = { a: 5, b: 7, c: 9 };
for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(obj)) {
  console.log(`${key} ${value}`); // "a 5", "b 7", "c 9"
}

// Or, using array extras
Object.entries(obj).forEach(([key, value]) => {
  console.log(`${key} ${value}`); // "a 5", "b 7", "c 9"
});