JavaScript allows duplicate property names in classes and object literals, but only the last instance of a duplicated name determines the actual value that will be used for it. Therefore, changing values of other occurrences of a duplicated name will have no effect and may cause misunderstandings and bugs.

What's more, using duplicate names will generate an error in JavaScript strict mode code.

Noncompliant Code Example

var data = {
  "key": "value",
  "1": "value",
  "key": "value", // Noncompliant - duplicate of "key"
  'key': "value", // Noncompliant - duplicate of "key"
  key: "value", // Noncompliant - duplicate of "key"
  \u006bey: "value", // Noncompliant - duplicate of "key"
  "\u006bey": "value", // Noncompliant - duplicate of "key"
  "\x6bey": "value", // Noncompliant - duplicate of "key"
  1: "value" // Noncompliant - duplicate of "1"
}

Compliant Solution

var data = {
  "key": "value",
  "1": "value",
  "key2": "value",
  'key3': "value",
  key4: "value",
  \u006bey5: "value",
  "\u006bey6": "value",
  "\x6bey7": "value",
  1b: "value"
}