NEEEEDD HELP! Use Destructuring Assignment to Assign Variables from Objects

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

well that is my code and my stupid cant seem to find out the solution for some reason :joy:, if anyone can help me out on this problem i would very much appreciate it

Your code so far



const AVG_TEMPERATURES = {
  today: 77.5,
  tomorrow: 79
};

function getTempOfTmrw(avgTemperatures) {
  "use strict";
  // change code below this line
  const tempOfTomorrow = {AVERAGE_TEMPERATURES : tomorrow}; // change this line
  // change code above this line
  return tempOfTomorrow;
}

console.log(getTempOfTmrw(AVG_TEMPERATURES)); // should be 79

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**Link to the challenge:**
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/es6/use-destructuring-assignment-to-assign-variables-from-objects
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So the thing is, you’re up to a couple of questionable things.

First, in your getTempOfTmrw(), you’re accessing the global AVERAGE_TEMPERATURES (which, by the way, doesn’t exist – it’s AVG_TEMPERATURES). Don’t access the globals, that’s bad form (and in this case, will fail). Your function is passed that same global as a local variable, avgTemperatures, use that instead.

Second, the destructure syntax can be read like a SQL statement: "actual-name as variable-name from table-name". Though, in this case, it’s "property-name as variable-name from object-name";

So, you might look at something more like this syntax:

const {propertyName : variableName} = objectName;

And read that as

const variableName = objectName.propertyName;
(or, in your head, "SELECT propertyName AS variableName FROM objectName", if you think in SQL)

For this assignment, it is overkill. But when you have multiple properties you wish to access, this is a REALLY useful feature.

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4

Great minds think alike… and so do we. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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function getTempOfTmrw(avgTemperatures) {
  "use strict";
  // change code below this line
  const tempOfTomorrow = {AVERAGE_TEMPERATURES : tomorrow}; <-------
  // change code above this line
  return tempOfTomorrow;
}

The line were you are declaring tempOfTomorrow needs to be changed

from this:

const tempOfTomorrow = {AVERAGE_TEMPERATURES : tomorrow};

to this:

const { tomorrowTemp: tomorrow } = avgTemperatures;

In fact, you can even write it like this:

const { tomorrow } = avgTemperatures;
6

I believe you’ve got the destructure exactly backwards. The object property is listed before the colon, the variable name to which you’re assigning after.

7

You’re correct @snowmonkey, apologies for the oversight on my part

const { tomorrow : tomorrowTemp:  } = avgTemperatures;
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You realize, of course, that I was trying to be sneaky and NOT give the answer…

9

I know, that damn daniel :woozy_face: