Mergician

Mergician is a uniquely flexible and light-weight utility for deep (recursive) merging/cloning of JavaScript objects.

Unlike native methods and other merge/clone utilities, Mergician provides advanced options for customizing the merge/clone process. These options make it easy to inspect, filter, and modify keys and properties; merge or skip unique, common, and universal keys (i.e., intersections, unions, and differences); and merge, sort, and remove duplicates from arrays. Property accessors and descriptors are also handled properly, ensuring that getter/setter functions are retained and descriptor values are defined on new merged/cloned objects.

• Documentation & Demos

Examples

Basic object cloning using default options:

// ES module shown. CommonJS module also available (see below).
import mergician from 'mergician';

const obj1 = { a: [1, 1], b: { c: 1, d: 1 } };
const clonedObj = mergician({}, obj1);

// Results
console.log(clonedObj); // { a: [1, 1], b: { c: 1, d: 1 } }
console.log(clonedObj === obj1); // false
console.log(clonedObj.a === obj1.a); // false
console.log(clonedObj.b === obj1.b); // false

Advanced object merging using custom options:

// ES module shown. CommonJS module also available (see below).
import mergician from 'mergician';

const obj1 = { a: [1, 1], b: { c: 1, d: 1 } };
const obj2 = { a: [2, 2], b: { c: 2 } };
const obj3 = { e: 3 };

const mergedObj = mergician({
    skipKeys: ['d'],
    appendArrays: true,
    dedupArrays: true,
    filter({ depth, key, srcObj, srcVal, targetObj, targetVal }) {
        if (key === 'e') {
            targetObj['hello'] = 'world';
            return false;
        }
    }
})(obj1, obj2, obj3);

// Result
console.log(mergedObj); // { a: [1, 2], b: { c: 2 }, hello: 'world' }

Features

• Deep merge or clone JavaScript objects
• Inspect, filter, and modify keys and properties
• Merge or skip unique, common, and universal keys (i.e., key unions and differences)
• Merge, sort, and remove duplicates from arrays
• Copy property accessors (getters/setters) and descriptors
• Returns new object without modifying source objects (immutable)
• Lightweight (1.5k min+gzip) and dependency-free

Platform Support

Node 10+
Chrome 61+
Edge 16+
Firefox 60+
Safari 10.1+

Installation

NPM

npm install mergician

// ES module
import mergician from 'mergician';

// CommonJS module
const mergician = require('mergician');

CDN

Available on jsdelivr (below), unpkg, and other CDN services that auto-publish npm packages.

// ES module @ latest v1.x.x (see @ version in URL)
import mergician from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mergician@1/dist/mergician.min.mjs';

<!-- Global "mergician" @ latest v1.x.x (see @ version in URL) -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mergician@1/dist/mergician.min.js"></script>

💡 Note the @ version lock in the URLs above. This prevents breaking changes in future releases from affecting your project and is therefore the safest method of loading dependencies from a CDN. When a new major version is released, you will need to manually update your CDN URLs by changing the version after the @ symbol.

Usage & Options

See the documentation site for details.

Sponsorship

A sponsorship is more than just a way to show appreciation for the open-source authors and projects we rely on; it can be the spark that ignites the next big idea, the inspiration to create something new, and the motivation to share so that others may benefit.

If you benefit from this project, please consider lending your support and encouraging future efforts by becoming a sponsor.

Thank you! 🙏🏻

Contact & Support

• Follow 👨🏻‍💻 @jhildenbiddle on Twitter and GitHub for announcements
• Create a 💬 GitHub issue for bug reports, feature requests, or questions
• Add a ⭐️ star on GitHub and 🐦 tweet to promote the project
• Become a 💖 sponsor to support the project and future efforts

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) John Hildenbiddle (@jhildenbiddle)