5.3 KiB
deepmerge
Merges the enumerable attributes of two or more objects deeply.
UMD bundle is 567B minified+gzipped
Migration from 1.x to 2.0.0
Check out the changes from version 1.x to 2.0.0
For the legacy array element-merging algorithm, see the arrayMerge
option below.
Webpack bug
If you have require('deepmerge')
(as opposed to import merge from 'deepmerge'
) anywhere in your codebase, Webpack 3 and 4 have a bug that breaks bundling.
If you see Error: merge is not a function
, add this alias to your Webpack config:
alias: {
deepmerge$: path.resolve(__dirname, 'node_modules/deepmerge/dist/umd.js'),
}
Getting Started
Example Usage
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 ]
}, {
does: 'work',
too: [ 4, 5, 6 ]
}, {
really: 'yes'
}],
quux: 5
}
merge(x, y) // => expected
Installation
With npm do:
npm install deepmerge
deepmerge can be used directly in the browser without the use of package managers/bundlers as well: UMD version from unpkg.com.
Includes
CommonJS:
var merge = require('deepmerge')
ES Modules:
import merge from 'deepmerge'
API
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
is modified.
Note: By default, arrays are merged by concatenating them.
merge.all(arrayOfObjects, [options])
Merges any number of 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
There are multiple ways to merge two arrays, below are a few examples but you can also create your own custom function.
Overwrite Array
Overwrites the existing array values completely rather than concatenating them
const overwriteMerge = (destinationArray, sourceArray, options) => sourceArray
merge(
[1, 2, 3],
[3, 2, 1],
{ arrayMerge: overwriteMerge }
) // => [3, 2, 1]
Combine Array
Combine arrays, such as overwriting existing defaults while also adding/keeping values that are different names
To use the legacy (pre-version-2.0.0) array merging algorithm, use the following:
const emptyTarget = value => Array.isArray(value) ? [] : {}
const clone = (value, options) => merge(emptyTarget(value), value, options)
function combineMerge(target, source, options) {
const destination = target.slice()
source.forEach(function(e, i) {
if (typeof destination[i] === 'undefined') {
const cloneRequested = options.clone !== false
const shouldClone = cloneRequested && options.isMergeableObject(e)
destination[i] = shouldClone ? clone(e, options) : e
} else if (options.isMergeableObject(e)) {
destination[i] = merge(target[i], e, options)
} else if (target.indexOf(e) === -1) {
destination.push(e)
}
})
return destination
}
merge(
[{ a: true }],
[{ b: true }, 'ah yup'],
{ arrayMerge: combineMerge }
) // => [{ a: true, b: true }, 'ah yup']
isMergeableObject
By default, deepmerge clones every property from almost every kind of object.
You may not want this, if your objects are of special types, and you want to copy the whole object instead of just copying its properties.
You can accomplish this by passing in a function for the isMergeableObject
option.
If you only want to clone properties of plain objects, and ignore all "special" kinds of instantiated objects, you probably want to drop in is-plain-object
.
const isPlainObject = require('is-plain-object')
function SuperSpecial() {
this.special = 'oh yeah man totally'
}
const instantiatedSpecialObject = new SuperSpecial()
const target = {
someProperty: {
cool: 'oh for sure'
}
}
const source = {
someProperty: instantiatedSpecialObject
}
const defaultOutput = merge(target, source)
defaultOutput.someProperty.cool // => 'oh for sure'
defaultOutput.someProperty.special // => 'oh yeah man totally'
defaultOutput.someProperty instanceof SuperSpecial // => false
const customMergeOutput = merge(target, source, {
isMergeableObject: isPlainObject
})
customMergeOutput.someProperty.cool // => undefined
customMergeOutput.someProperty.special // => 'oh yeah man totally'
customMergeOutput.someProperty instanceof SuperSpecial // => true
clone
Deprecated.
Defaults to true
.
If clone
is false
then child objects will be copied directly instead of being cloned. This was the default behavior before version 2.x.
Testing
With npm do:
npm test
License
MIT