Edit
With ES6, this is now possible using a ComputedPropertyName, which manifests in the form of the following syntax:
var myVar = "name";
var myObject = {
[myVar]: "value"
};
You can use the []
syntax to use an expression as the property name (compared to the .prop
and prop: value
syntaxes where they are always treated as strings):
var myObject = {};
var myVar = "name";
myObject[myVar] = "value";
There is no way to use that inside an object literal, though. You have to create the object first and then assign each property separately.