Extracting object keys is fundamental for iterating over object properties, building dynamic forms, and processing API responses in JavaScript applications. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve used object key extraction in thousands of data processing scenarios over 25 years of development. From my expertise, the most straightforward approach is using the Object.keys() method, which returns an array of enumerable property names. This provides a clean, iterable list of keys for further processing.