How to concatenate properties from multiple JavaScript objects

Question

ECMAscript 6 introduced Object.assign() to achieve this natively in Javascript.

The Object.assign() method is used to copy the values of all enumerable own properties from one or more source objects to a target object. It will return the target object.

MDN documentation on Object.assign()

var o1 = { a: 1 };
var o2 = { b: 2 };
var o3 = { c: 3 };

var obj = Object.assign({}, o1, o2, o3);
console.log(obj); // { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }

Object.assign is supported in many modern browsers but not yet all of them. Use a transpiler like Babel and Traceur to generate backwards-compatible ES5 JavaScript.

ECMAScript 6 has spread syntax. And now you can do this:

const obj1 = { 1: 11, 2: 22 };
const obj2 = { 3: 33, 4: 44 };
const obj3 = { ...obj1, ...obj2 };

console.log(obj3); // {1: 11, 2: 22, 3: 33, 4: 44}

This should do it:

function collect() {
  var ret = {};
  var len = arguments.length;
  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    for (p in arguments[i]) {
      if (arguments[i].hasOwnProperty(p)) {
        ret[p] = arguments[i][p];
      }
    }
  }
  return ret;
}

let a = { "one" : 1, "two" : 2 };
let b = { "three" : 3 };
let c = { "four" : 4, "five" : 5 };

let d = collect(a, b, c);
console.log(d);

Output:

{
  "one": 1,
  "two": 2,
  "three": 3,
  "four": 4,
  "five": 5
}

You could use jquery's $.extend like this:

let a = { "one" : 1, "two" : 2 },
    b = { "three" : 3 },
    c = { "four" : 4, "five" : 5 };

let d = $.extend({}, a, b, c)

console.log(d)

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Underscore has few methods to do this;

1. _.extend(destination, *sources)

Copy all of the properties in the source objects over to the destination object, and return the destination object.

_.extend(a, _.extend(b, c));
=> {"one" : 1, "two" : 2, "three" : 3, "four" : 4, "five" : 5 }

Or

_.extend(a, b);
=> {"one" : 1, "two" : 2, "three" : 3}
_.extend(a, c);
=> {"one" : 1, "two" : 2, "three" : 3, "four" : 4, "five" : 5 }

2. _.defaults(object, *defaults)

Fill in undefined properties in object with values from the defaults objects, and return the object.

_.defaults(a, _.defaults(b, c));
=> {"one" : 1, "two" : 2, "three" : 3, "four" : 4, "five" : 5 }

Or

_.defaults(a, b);
=> {"one" : 1, "two" : 2, "three" : 3}
_.defaults(a, c);
=> {"one" : 1, "two" : 2, "three" : 3, "four" : 4, "five" : 5 }

Shallow-cloning (excluding prototype) or merging of objects is now possible using a shorter syntax than Object.assign().

Spread syntax for object literals was introduced in ECMAScript 2018):

const a = { "one": 1, "two": 2 };
const b = { "three": 3 };
const c = { "four": 4, "five": 5 };

const result = {...a, ...b, ...c};
// Object { "one": 1, "two": 2 , "three": 3, "four": 4, "five": 5 }

Spread (...) operator is supported in many modern browsers but not all of them.

So, it is recommend to use a transpiler like Babel to convert ECMAScript 2015+ code into a backwards compatible version of JavaScript in current and older browsers or environments.

This is the equivalent code Babel will generate for you:

"use strict";

var _extends = Object.assign || function(target) {
  for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) {
    var source = arguments[i];
    for (var key in source) {
      if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) {
        target[key] = source[key];
      }
    }
  }
  return target;
};

var a = { "one": 1, "two": 2 };
var b = { "three": 3 };
var c = { "four": 4, "five": 5 };

var result = _extends({}, a, b, c);
// Object { "one": 1, "two": 2 , "three": 3, "four": 4, "five": 5 }

Why should the function be restricted to 3 arguments? Also, check for hasOwnProperty.

function Collect() {
    var o={};
    for(var i=0;i<arguments.length;i++) {
      var arg=arguments[i];
      if(typeof arg != "object") continue;
      for(var p in arg) {
        if(arg.hasOwnProperty(p)) o[p] = arg[p];
      }
    }
    return o;
}