I recently attempted a code challenge where I needed to deeply clone an object. Prior to this I learned to do this by converting it to JSON. But according to this blog post, he specifically has JSON Serialization as the wrong way to do this.

The reason for this is:

"By doing this you will lose any Javascript property that has no equivalent type in JSON, like Function or Infinity. Any property that’s assigned to undefined will be ignored by JSON.stringify, causing them to be missed on the cloned object.

Also, some objects are converted to strings, like Date objects for example (also, not taking into account the timezone and defaulting to UTC), Set, Map and many others"

Is there a native way to deeply clone an object in JavaScript? The only approach he listed is by using the Lodash library. All of the other methods are shallow copies.