Remove a property in an object immutably

Question

How about using destructuring assignment syntax?

const original = {
  foo: 'bar',
  stack: 'overflow',
};

// If the name of the property to remove is constant
const { stack, ...withoutFirst } = original;
console.log(withoutFirst); // Will be { "foo": "bar" }

// If the name of the property to remove is from a variable
const key = 'stack'
const { [key]: value, ...withoutSecond } = original;
console.log(withoutSecond); // Will be { "foo": "bar" }

// To do a deep removal with property names from variables
const deep = {
  foo: 'bar',
  c: {
   x: 1,
   y: 2
  }
};

const parentKey = 'c';
const childKey = 'y';
// Remove the 'c' element from original
const { [parentKey]: parentValue, ...noChild } = deep;
// Remove the 'y' from the 'c' element
const { [childKey]: removedValue, ...childWithout } = parentValue;
// Merge back together
const withoutThird = { ...noChild, [parentKey]: childWithout };
console.log(withoutThird); // Will be { "foo": "bar", "c": { "x": 1 } }

I find ES5 array methods like filter, map and reduce useful because they always return new arrays or objects. In this case I'd use Object.keys to iterate over the object, and Array#reduce to turn it back into an object.

return Object.assign({}, state, {
    c: Object.keys(state.c).reduce((result, key) => {
        if (key !== 'y') {
            result[key] = state.c[key];
        }
        return result;
    }, {})
});

You can use _.omit(object, [paths]) from lodash library

path can be nested for example: _.omit(object, ['key1.key2.key3'])

Just use ES6 object destructuring feature

const state = {
    c: {
       x: '42',
       y: '43'
    },
}

const { c: { y, ...c } } = state // generates a new 'c' without 'y'

console.log({...state, c }) // put the new c on a new state

That's because you are copying the value of state.c to the other object. And that value is a pointer to another javascript object. So, both of those pointers are pointing to the same object.

Try this:

let newState = Object.assign({}, state);
console.log(newState == state); // false
console.log(newState.c == state.c); // true
newState.c = Object.assign({}, state.c);
console.log(newState.c == state.c); // now it is false
delete newState.c.y;

You can also do a deep-copy of the object. See this question and you'll find what's best for you.

How about this:

function removeByKey (myObj, deleteKey) {
  return Object.keys(myObj)
    .filter(key => key !== deleteKey)
    .reduce((result, current) => {
      result[current] = myObj[current];
      return result;
  }, {});
}

It filters the key that should be deleted then builds a new object from the remaining keys and the initial object. The idea is stolen from Tyler McGinnes awesome reactjs program.

JSBin

function dissoc(key, obj) {
  let copy = Object.assign({}, obj)
  delete copy[key]
  return copy
}

Also, if looking for a functional programming toolkit, look at Ramda.