How can I do a shallow comparison of the properties of two objects with Javascript or lodash?

Question

Is there a way I can do a shallow comparison that will not go down and compare the contents of objects inside of objects in Javascript or lodash? Note that I did check lodas

Answer 1

function areEqualShallow(a, b) {
    for(var key in a) {
        if(!(key in b) || a[key] !== b[key]) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    for(var key in b) {
        if(!(key in a) || a[key] !== b[key]) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

Notes:

• Since this is shallow, areEqualShallow({a:{}}, {a:{}}) is false.

• areEqualShallow({a:undefined}, {}) is false.

• This includes any properties from the prototype.

• This uses === comparison. I assume that is what you want. NaN === NaN is one case that may yield unexpected results. If === is not what you want, substitute with the comparison you want.

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EDIT: If the same keys are in each object, then

function areEqualShallow(a, b) {
    for(var key in a) {
        if(a[key] !== b[key]) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}