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JavaScript

Help with my JavaScript code please..

https://w.trhou.se/96xxbaha5g

hello, after my inner.HTML i have alot of address.houseNumber address.Street address.City address.State

etc ... is there any way to make this shorter? simplier?

3 Answers

Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points

You can use object destructuring and template strings using es6. It's cleaner to look at and you don't have to call the object.key over and over. It's also very common on front end frameworks and libraries for import statements. Template Strings are just backticks (``) and to use a variable you can just use ${variable} so you don't have to concat everything with spaces and plus signs.

let person = {
        firstName: "John",
        lastName: "Doe",
        age: 50,
        eyeColor: "blue",
      };

      let { firstName, lastName, age, eyeColor } = person; // <-- DESCTRUCTED PERSON OBJECT

      document.getElementById(
        "demo"
      ).innerHTML = `${firstName} is ${age} years old <br /> ${eyeColor} eye color`;

      let address = {
        houseNumber: "31770 ",
        street: "Alvarado Blvd ",
        city: "Union City",
        state: "California(CA)",
        country: "USA",
        zipcode: "94587",

        phone: "(510)489-5531",
      };

      let {
        houseNumber,
        street,
        city,
        state,
        country,
        zipcode,
        phone,
      } = address;  // <-- DESCTRUCTED ADDRESS OBJECT

      document.getElementById(
        "demo2"
      ).innerHTML = `${houseNumber} ${street} <br />
                ${city}<br />
                ${state}<br />
                ${country}<br />
                ${zipcode}<br /><br />


                ("Phone:")
                ${phone}`;

i'm very new to this so i will study your code, thank you..

Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points

Yup no problem, and you can take the quotation marks out of the ("phone:") part too. I didn't notice that I left that in so the quotes will be output in the HTML.

oh yes i just noticed that ("phone:") upon running the code and i was wondering, question was my original code ok or was it not really best practise?

Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points

Yeah, your original code was basically the exact same just the syntax makes it harder for the developer to read, but it runs the same. The only thing that I would get use to changing is let instead of var. It's the preferred way to declare variable.

If you want to read on that. Its not a massive difference but it's better to learn now and get used to: --> https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/var-let-and-const-whats-the-difference/

Very interesting Thanks, you've helped me a lot, i will definitely give (let) more consideration!