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

This works for arrays, objects and primitives. Doubly recursive algorithm that switches between two traversal methods:

const deepClone = (objOrArray) => {

  const copyArray = (arr) => {
    let arrayResult = [];
    arr.forEach(el => {
        arrayResult.push(cloneObjOrArray(el));
    });
    return arrayResult;
  }

  const copyObj = (obj) => {
    let objResult = {};
    for (key in obj) {
      if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
        objResult[key] = cloneObjOrArray(obj[key]);
      }
    }
    return objResult;
  }

  const cloneObjOrArray = (el) => {
    if (Array.isArray(el)) {
      return copyArray(el);
    } else if (typeof el === 'object') {
      return copyObj(el);
    } else {
      return el;
    }
  }

  return cloneObjOrArray(objOrArray);
}