How to Deep clone in javascript

Question

How do you deep clone a JavaScript object?

I know there are various functions based on frameworks like JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(o)) and $.extend(t

Answer 1

The Underscore.js contrib library library has a function called snapshot that deep clones an object

snippet from the source:

snapshot: function(obj) {
  if(obj == null || typeof(obj) != 'object') {
    return obj;
  }

  var temp = new obj.constructor();

  for(var key in obj) {
    if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
      temp[key] = _.snapshot(obj[key]);
    }
  }

  return temp;
}

once the library is linked to your project, invoke the function simply using

_.snapshot(object);