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

Use immutableJS

import { fromJS } from 'immutable';

// An object we want to clone
let objA = { 
   a: { deep: 'value1', moreDeep: {key: 'value2'} } 
};

let immB = fromJS(objA); // Create immutable Map
let objB = immB.toJS(); // Convert to plain JS object

console.log(objA); // Object { a: { deep: 'value1', moreDeep: {key: 'value2'} } }
console.log(objB); // Object { a: { deep: 'value1', moreDeep: {key: 'value2'} } }

// objA and objB are equalent, but now they and their inner objects are undependent
console.log(objA === objB); // false
console.log(objA.a === objB.a); // false
console.log(objA.moreDeep === objB.moreDeep); // false

Or lodash/merge

import merge from 'lodash/merge'

var objA = {
    a: [{ 'b': 2 }, { 'd': 4 }]
};
// New deeply cloned object:
merge({}, objA ); 

// We can also create new object from several objects by deep merge:
var objB = {
    a: [{ 'c': 3 }, { 'e': 5 }]
};
merge({}, objA , objB ); // Object { a: [{ 'b': 2, 'c': 3 }, { 'd': 4, 'e': 5 }] }