Object-differ

Node module to update deep objects and get notified about changes

Install

``javascript
$ npm install object-differ
`

Example

`javascript
var differ = require('object-differ');

var obj = {
'This': 'is',
'a': {
'test': 'object',
'demonstrating': 'the'
},
'functionality': ['of', 'object-differ']
};

var update = {
'a': {
'test': 'that isn\'t'
}
};

// The function will be called whenever a value changes
differ(obj, update, function(key, value, old, path) {
console.log('Changed', key, 'from', old, 'to', value);
// OUTPUT: Changed test from object to that isn't
});
`

Syntax

`javascript
differ(obj, update, callback, notifyObjects, strict)
``
* obj: Target object you want to update (object)
* update: Object containing what you want to replace (object)
* callback: Called whenever a key in obj differs from the matching key in update (function)
* notifyObjects: set to true to get notified about objects (e.g. parents) changing (true, false)
* strict: If update doesn't contain a key, delete it from obj (true, false)