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Discussion on: How to make a real copy of a JavaScript Array with Objects (without a reference)

 
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Alain Van Hout • Edited

That's a clean way to improve the depths of the copy, but it once again falls short when the object nesting goes down 3 levels instead of 2. To resolve that, you'd have to do a manual deep copy (in whatever succinct way).

The performance of the parse(stringify(x)) approach is notably not that bad, particularly compared to a deep copy (although the former of course copies only data, not functions). For example: jsperf.com/deep-copy-vs-json-strin...

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Daniel Mayovsky

Tests were very helpful. Although I am not intending to run the copy more than once a restart of the app. So this works for me.