How to remove undefined and null values from an object using lodash?

Question

I have a Javascript object like:

var my_object = { a:undefined, b:2, c:4, d:undefined };

How to remove all the undefined properties? False

Answer 1

With lodash (or underscore) You may do

var my_object = { a:undefined, b:2, c:4, d:undefined, e:null };

var passedKeys = _.reject(Object.keys(my_object), function(key){ return _.isUndefined(my_object[key]) || _.isNull(my_object[key]) })

newObject = {};
_.each(passedKeys, function(key){
    newObject[key] = my_object[key];
});

Otherwise, with vanilla JavaScript, you can do

var my_object = { a:undefined, b:2, c:4, d:undefined };
var new_object = {};

Object.keys(my_object).forEach(function(key){
    if (typeof my_object[key] != 'undefined' && my_object[key]!=null){
        new_object[key] = my_object[key];
    }
});

Not to use a falsey test, because not only "undefined" or "null" will be rejected, also is other falsey value like "false", "0", empty string, {}. Thus, just to make it simple and understandable, I opted to use explicit comparison as coded above.