I am Trying to add new item to the Friends property of users, but it isn't working

JavaScript
#1

i am Trying to add new item to the Friends property of users Object, but it isn’t working. Please how do i handle this. i have tried different approach but still not getting the right answer.

Your code so far


let user = {
 name: 'Kenneth',
 age: 28,
 data: {
   username: 'kennethCodesAllDay',
   joinDate: 'March 26, 2016',
   organization: 'freeCodeCamp',
   friends: [
     'Sam',
     'Kira',
     'Tomo'
   ],
   location: {
     city: 'San Francisco',
     state: 'CA',
     country: 'USA'
   }
 }
};

function addFriend(userObj, friend) {
 // Only change code below this line
let newFriend = userObj.data.friends.push(friend);
console.log(newFriend);
//let answer = newFriend.push(friend);
//console.log(answer)
return newFriend;
 // Only change code above this line
}

console.log(addFriend(user, 'Pete'));

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#2

hi CodeBank, to add a new item to the friends property you can use the obj[prop] = value
or obj.prop = val, hope this helps

#3

Hi @CodebanK,
You can add an item to an array in multiple ways, but the most common way is to use the “push()” function; like “push(‘CodeBanK’);”
To add to this particular array, I would “drill down to it” by accessing it with “dot notation”: “user.data.friends”.
The complete instruction would be:
user.data.friends.push(‘CodeBanK’);
I hope that this helps. You might find researching the following to be useful:
push(), shift(), dot notation, and bracket notation.

#4

Hey @CodebanK!

You have successfully added a new friend to the array. So that’s not your problem. The problem is your return statement. Your task is to return the modified array.

let newFriend // delete this
userObj.data.friends.push(friend); // keep this
return newFriend; // change to modified array

You are really close you just have to return the right part.
Hope that helps!

#5

the output of push is the new length of the array. newFriend has value of a number, I don’t think that’s the output you want

#6