lodash.isobject

What is lodash.isobject?

The lodash.isobject npm package is a utility module that provides functionality to check if a value is the type of Object. It is part of the larger Lodash library, which is a comprehensive toolkit of JavaScript utilities that provides consistency, customization, performance, and extras. lodash.isobject specifically helps in determining whether a provided value is an object, which is useful in various data validation and formatting scenarios in JavaScript programming.

What are lodash.isobject's main functionalities?

Object Type Checking

This feature allows developers to check if a given value is an object. It returns true for objects and arrays (since arrays are technically objects in JavaScript), but false for functions, null, and non-object values.

const isObject = require('lodash.isobject');
console.log(isObject({})); // true
console.log(isObject([1, 2, 3])); // true
console.log(isObject(Function)); // false
console.log(isObject(null)); // false

Other packages similar to lodash.isobject

is-plain-object

is-plain-object is a package that checks if a given value is a plain object, that is, an object created by the Object constructor or one with a [[Prototype]] of null. It is more specific compared to lodash.isobject as it does not consider arrays or any objects created through user-defined classes as plain objects.

is-object

is-object is another npm package that provides functionality to check if a value is a non-null object. This package is similar to lodash.isobject but does not consider functions as objects, making it slightly stricter in its checks compared to lodash.isobject.

README

lodash.isobject v3.0.0

The modern build of lodash’s _.isObject exported as a Node.js/io.js module.

Installation

Using npm:

$ {sudo -H} npm i -g npm
$ npm i --save lodash.isobject

In Node.js/io.js:

var isObject = require('lodash.isobject');

See the documentation or package source for more details.