Destructuring object and ignore one of the results

Question

I have:

const section = cloneElement(this.props.children, {
  className: this.props.styles.section,
  ...this.props,
});

Inside this.props, I have a styles property that I don't want to pass to the cloned element.

How can I do?

Answer 1

You can use the object rest/spread syntax:

// We destructure our "this.props" creating a 'styles' variable and
// using the object rest syntax we put the rest of the properties available
// from "this.props" into a variable called 'otherProps' 
const { styles, ...otherProps } = this.props;
const section = cloneElement(this.props.children, {
  className: styles.section,
  // We spread our props, which excludes the 'styles'
  ...otherProps,
});

I assume that you already have support from this syntax based on your code above, but please be aware that this is a proposed syntax which is made available to you via the babel stage 1 preset. If you get syntax errors on execution you can install the preset as follows:

 npm install babel-preset-stage-1 --save-dev

And then add it to the presets section of your babel configuration. For example in your .babelrc file:

 "presets": [ "es2015", "react", "stage-1" ]

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Update based on comment on question by OP.

Okay, so you say that you already have a styles variable declared before this block? We can manage this case too. You can rename your destructured arguments to avoid this.

For example:

const styles = { foo: 'bar' };

const { styles: otherStyles, ...otherProps } = this.props;
const section = cloneElement(this.props.children, {
  className: otherStyles.section,
  // We spread our props, which excludes the 'styles'
  ...otherProps,
});