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Discussion on: Copying objects in JavaScript

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Gianluca Fabrizi

Great article!
Just last week i encountered this same issue with some production code:
we had a video player that accepts some options when you initialize it; for some strange reasons if 2 video player where initialized on the same page, they both had the same value for some options passed only to the second player. The code is legacy, the videoplayer is implemented as a big fat object.
It turns out that the player store options for a particular feature in a nested object, so even if i clone the player itself with Object.assign(), the inner object is the same reference for both of them 😅 ...

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Rohit Kumawat

😀 Interesting scenario!
I encountered this problem when I was passing down some data to child components but somehow it was changing data in parent component too.

Thanks for reading!