David  B.

Techniques

Utilities, which can be used in other notebooks via import

Observable Utils

You may want to remove the name properties from the slider options, since they are not used by slider().

Fabian Iwand

You are right, thanks for noticing it, removed

I love the inputsGroup! But I use it and like to further process the array properties. I noticed using this output data structure having an array of elements and additional properties is unusual and e.g. just iterating over the properties but not the array elements is not trivial

@ee2dev do you have suggestions on how to improve it? (while maintaining  backward-compatibility)

My impression is changing the output while maintaining backward-compatibility is a stretch. I thought of a new cell inputsGroup2 .. If I would fully understand your code I would suggest a function myself 😰🙄🧐- I thought a version where the output is just an object with the names without the Array element part  if names are specified

but I can at least reference the solution for just processing the array properties if case someone needs the same: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66791070/how-do-i-iterate-over-properties-of-an-array-not-the-elements-in-javascript

I added argument property and you can request to receive objOnly result