How to change value of object which is inside an array using JavaScript or jQuery?

Question

The code below comes from jQuery UI Autocomplete:

var projects = [
    {
        value: "jquery",
        label: "jQuery",
        desc: "the write less, do more, JavaScript library",
        icon: "jquery_32x32.png"
    },
    {
        value: "jquery-ui",
        label: "jQuery UI",
        desc: "the official user interface library for jQuery",
        icon: "jqueryui_32x32.png"
    },
    {
        value: "sizzlejs",
        label: "Sizzle JS",
        desc: "a pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine",
        icon: "sizzlejs_32x32.png"
    }
];

For example, I want to change the desc value of jquery-ui. How can I do that?

Additionally, is there a faster way to get the data? I mean give the object a name to fetch its data, just like the object inside an array? So it would be something like jquery-ui.jquery-ui.desc = ....

Answer 1

It is quite simple

• Find the index of the object using findIndex method.
• Store the index in variable.
• Do a simple update like this: yourArray[indexThatyouFind]

//Initailize array of objects.
let myArray = [
  {id: 0, name: "Jhon"},
  {id: 1, name: "Sara"},
  {id: 2, name: "Domnic"},
  {id: 3, name: "Bravo"}
],
    
//Find index of specific object using findIndex method.    
objIndex = myArray.findIndex((obj => obj.id == 1));

//Log object to Console.
console.log("Before update: ", myArray[objIndex])

//Update object's name property.
myArray[objIndex].name = "Laila"

//Log object to console again.
console.log("After update: ", myArray[objIndex])