How to customize object equality for JavaScript Set

Question

New ES 6 (Harmony) introduces new Set object. Identity algorithm used by Set is similar to === operator and so not much suitable for comparing objects:

Answer 1

Maybe you can try to use JSON.stringify() to do deep object comparison.

for example :

const arr = [
  {name:'a', value:10},
  {name:'a', value:20},
  {name:'a', value:20},
  {name:'b', value:30},
  {name:'b', value:40},
  {name:'b', value:40}
];

const names = new Set();
const result = arr.filter(item => !names.has(JSON.stringify(item)) ? names.add(JSON.stringify(item)) : false);

console.log(result);