is-equal-objects

Check whether objects are equal in deep. Useful for checking options objects.

Features

• Arrays and flat objects (whose constructor is Object and proto is Object.prototype) will be deeply tested
• NaN === NaN
• Date, Regexp will be checked by reference or value, other complex objects will be simply compared by reference
• Circular references to objects will be compared by reference
• No dependencies
• CDN friendly

Installation

Install for node.js or browserify using npm/yarn:

$ npm install is-equal-objects --save

$ yarn add is-equal-objects

import isEqualObjects from 'is-equal-objects/esm';
//OR
const isEqualObjects= require('is-equal-objects');   

CDN

Use unpkg.com cdn to get the link to the script/module from the package:

• minified UMD ES5 version (~1kB)

<script src="https://unpkg.com/is-equal-objects"></script>
<script>
    isEqualObjects({x:1}, {x:1})//true
</script>

• ESM ES2015 module(~2kB)

import {isEqualObjects, cloneObject} from "https://unpkg.com/is-equal-objects/dist/is-equal-objects.esm.js"
//or minified version
import {isEqualObjects, cloneObject} from "https://unpkg.com/is-equal-objects/dist/is-equal-objects.esm.min.js"

Usage examples

Basic usage:

    isEqualObjects(1, 1); //true
    isEqualObjects({x:1}, {x:1}); //true
    isEqualObjects({x:1}, {x:1}, {x:1}); //true
    isEqualObjects([{x:1}], [{x:1}]); //true
    isEqualObjects([{x:[1]}], [{x:[1]}]); //true

    const complexObj= Object.create({});
    Object.assign(complexObj, {x:1});
    isEqualObjects({x:1}, complexObj); //false, complexObj is not a flat object, test by reference 

    isEqualObjects(new Date(1995, 11, 17), new Date(1995, 11, 17)); //true
    isEqualObjects(/\s+/, /\s+/); //true

     isEqualObjects(
            Object.create({
                [isEqualObjects.plainObject]: true,
                x: 123
            }), 
            Object.create({
                [isEqualObjects.plainObject]: true,
                x: 123
            })
     ); // true

     isEqualObjects.call({
        comparator(obj1, obj2){
           return obj1.x === obj2.x;
        }
     }, {x: 123, ignoredProp: 456}, {x:123, ignoredProp: 987});

// cloneObject usage

     const sourceObj= {x: {y: new Date()}};

     const clonedObject = cloneObject(sourceObj);
     
     console.log(sourceObj.x === clonedObj.x); // false
     console.log(sourceObj.x.y === clonedObj.x.y); // false
     console.log(isEqualObjects(sourceObj, clonedObject)); // true

API

isEqualObjects(...objects: any): Boolean

• ...objects objects to check

returns false, if the objects are not deeply equal, true otherwise

Additional options can be passed via function context (this):

• comparator(obj1: any, obj2: any): boolean|undefined - a custom object comparator

cloneObject(obj: any): any

• obj any object to clone

returns a deep copy of the object

Contribution

Feel free to fork, open issues, enhance or create pull requests.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Dmitriy Mozgovoy [e-mail]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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