How to Deep clone in javascript

Question

How do you deep clone a JavaScript object?

I know there are various functions based on frameworks like JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(o)) and $.extend(t

Answer 1

We can utilize recursion for making deepCopy. It can create copy of array, object, array of object, object with function. if you want, you can add function for other type of data structure like map etc.

function deepClone(obj) {
         var retObj;
        _assignProps = function(obj, keyIndex, retObj) {
               var subType = Object.prototype.toString.call(obj[keyIndex]);
               if(subType === "[object Object]" || subType === "[object Array]") {
                    retObj[keyIndex] = deepClone(obj[keyIndex]);
               }
               else {
                     retObj[keyIndex] = obj[keyIndex];
               }
        };

        if(Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === "[object Object]") {
           retObj = {};
           for(key in obj) {
               this._assignProps(obj, key, retObj);
           }
        }
        else if(Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) == "[object Array]") {
           retObj = [];
           for(var i = 0; i< obj.length; i++) {
              this._assignProps(obj, i, retObj);
            }
        };

        return retObj;
    };