deepmerge

deepmerge

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Merge the enumerable attributes of two objects deeply.

example

var x = {
    foo: { bar: 3 },
    array: [{
        does: 'work',
        too: [ 1, 2, 3 ]
    }]
}

var y = {
    foo: { baz: 4 },
    quux: 5,
    array: [{
        does: 'work',
        too: [ 4, 5, 6 ]
    }, {
        really: 'yes'
    }]
}

var expected = {
    foo: {
        bar: 3,
        baz: 4
    },
    array: [{
        does: 'work',
        too: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
    }, {
        really: 'yes'
    }],
    quux: 5
}

merge(x, y) // => expected

methods

var merge = require('deepmerge')

merge(x, y, [options])

Merge two objects x and y deeply, returning a new merged object with the elements from both x and y.

If an element at the same key is present for both x and y, the value from y will appear in the result.

Merging creates a new object, so that neither x or y are be modified. However, child objects on x or y are copied over - if you to copy all values, you must pass true to the clone option.

merge.all(arrayOfObjects, [options])

Merges two or more objects into a single result object.

var x = { foo: { bar: 3 } }
var y = { foo: { baz: 4 } }
var z = { bar: 'yay!' }

var expected = { foo: { bar: 3, baz: 4 }, bar: 'yay!' }

merge.all([x, y, z]) // => expected

options

arrayMerge

The merge will also merge arrays and array values by default. However, there are nigh-infinite valid ways to merge arrays, and you may want to supply your own. You can do this by passing an arrayMerge function as an option.

function concatMerge(destinationArray, sourceArray, options) {
	destinationArray // => [1, 2, 3]
	sourceArray // => [3, 2, 1]
	options // => { arrayMerge: concatMerge }
	return destinationArray.concat(sourceArray)
}
merge([1, 2, 3], [3, 2, 1], { arrayMerge: concatMerge }) // => [1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1]

clone

Defaults to false. If clone is true then both x and y are recursively cloned as part of the merge.

install

With npm do:

npm install deepmerge

test

With npm do:

npm test

license

MIT

Changelog

1.3.2

• documentation: note the minified/gzipped file sizes 56
• documentation: make data structures more readable in merge example: pull request 57

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lodash.merge

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extend

The extend package is a port of the jQuery.extend method that can deep copy both arrays and objects. It is less specialized than deepmerge and does not provide as many options for customizing the merge behavior.

object-assign-deep

This package offers functionality similar to Object.assign but with deep merging capabilities. It is a smaller and more focused utility compared to deepmerge, but it may not offer the same level of customization for array merging and other specific use cases.