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# Computed Property Names In ES6
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Perhaps more often than not, property names in an object are based on
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something dynamic rather than a static value. In ES5, you may end up with
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code like the following to build an object with dynamic property names:
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```javascript
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var dynamic1 = 'hello',
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dynamic2 = 'world';
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var obj = {};
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var propName1 = dynamic1 + dynamic2;
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var propName2 = 5 * 11;
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obj[propName1] = true;
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obj[propName2] = false;
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> obj
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// { 55: false, 'helloworld': true }
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```
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With ES6, we get _computed property names_ which allow us to do all of these
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inline when defining the object. We just have to wrap the code that will be
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evaluated to a property name in brackets:
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```javascript
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const dynamic1 = 'hello',
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dynamic2 = 'world';
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const obj = {
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[dynamic1 + dynamic2]: true,
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[5 * 11]: false
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};
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> obj
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// { 55: false, 'helloworld': true }
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```
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Computed properties are [already available in many modern
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browsers](https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#test-object_literal_extensions_computed_properties).
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