Building an array of objects with a loop

Question

Would it be possible to build the following variable with a loop?

let mp3list = [
 {
 name: "Minuetto A",
 path: "assets/music/minuettoA.mp3"
 },
 {
 name: "Minuetto B",
 path: "assets/music/minuettoB.mp3"
 },
 {
 name: "Minuetto C",
 path: "assets/music/minuettoC.mp3"
 },
 {
 name: "Minuetto D",
 path: "assets/music/minuettoD.mp3"
 },
 {
 name: "Minuetto E",
 path: "assets/music/minuettoE.mp3"
 },
 {
 name: "Minuetto F",
 path: "assets/music/minuettoF.mp3"
 } // etc
];

It looks so 'patterned' that I guess there should be a way! I'm curious to know! :)

Answer 1

Of course but you will need the alphabet somewhere. Maybe .map() is the cleanest solution

Array.prototype.map()

let alphabet = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K']; // and so on
let mp3list = alphabet.map( item => {
 return {
 name: `Minuetto ${item}`,
 path: `assets/music/minuetto${item}.mp3`
 };
});
console.log(mp3list);

or with ES6 Array.prototype.forEach()

let alphabet = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K']; // and so on
let mp3list = [];
alphabet.forEach( item => {
 mp3list.push(
 {
 name: `Minuetto ${item}`,
 path: `assets/music/minuetto${item}.mp3`
 }
 );
});
console.log(mp3list);

or old school Array.prototype.forEach() with string concatenation

let alphabet = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K']; // and so on
let mp3list = [];
alphabet.forEach(function(item){
 mp3list.push(
 {
 name: "Minuetto " + item,
 path: "assets/music/minuetto"+item+".mp3"
 }
 );
});
console.log(mp3list);

• Guillermo Brachetta: Nice!! Aww I'm new to JS but how amazing it its!! Thank you!!
• caramba: @danh thanks for the input! I've updated the answer and now I wait for your upvote :-)
• Guillermo Brachetta: Guys you talk about upvoting and things like that and to me this is a journey of discovery and I love to realise JS can do things in so many different ways! :) thank you to all!
• danh: :-) plus one. note that param => ({ object }) works in every dialect that supports fat arrow functions.