Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

One of the new features of ES6 that has made it into Node 4 is arrow functions. According to the documentation, there are 2 alternative syntaxes:

(param1, param2, …, paramN) => { statements }
(param1, param2, …, paramN) => expression
         // equivalent to:  => { return expression; }

Using the 2nd version works as expected for primitive values:

> [1,2,3].map(i => i);
[ 1, 2, 3 ]

but not when you return an object:

> [1,2,3].map(i => { id: i });
[ undefined, undefined, undefined ]

As was pointed out to me on SO, it’s impossible to tell the difference between a statement block and an expression consisting of an object literal.

The solution is to wrap the returned object in an extra set of parentheses:

> [1,2,3].map(i => ({ id: i }));
[ {id: 1}, {id: 2}, {id: 3} ]