by Lukas Gisder-Dubé How to differentiate between deep and shallow copies in JavaScript Photo by Oliver Zenglein [https://unsplash.com/photos/VWYif1k5OZc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText]  on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/search/photos/storm-trooper?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] New is always better! You have most certainly dealt with copies in JavaScript before, even if you didn’t know it. Maybe you have also heard of th

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Learn how to differentiate between deep and shallow copies in JavaScript and how to make copies of objects and arrays. Understand the concept of deep copying, primitive data types, and the use of spread operator and Object.assign method.

How to differentiate between deep and shallow copies in JavaScript

<p>Nice, tutorial. but I think you forgot to mention that,
if anyone needs to compare whether two objects are equal or not, they can’t use the stringify method, because it makes direct string, not compare the order of keys. if two objects have the same value and the same string, then the stringify method will not work.</p>


<p>Basically a nice tutorial. But I find it a bit hard to read, with all the one-line blocks of code that still somehow belong together.</p>
