_.isEqual is useful when you want to compare complex data types by value not the reference.

Can you implement your own version of deep equal isEqual? The lodash version covers a lot of data types. In this problem, you are asked to support :

primitives
plain objects (object literals)
array

Objects are compared by their own, not inherited, enumerable properties

const a = {a: 'bfe'}const b = {a: 'bfe'}isEqual(a, b) // truea === b // falseconst c = [1, a, '4']const d = [1, b, '4']isEqual(c, d) // truec === d // false

Lodash implementation has some strange behaviors. (github issue, like following code

const a = {}a.self = aconst b = {self: a}const c = {}c.self = cconst d = {self: {self: a}}const e = {self: {self: b}}

lodash.isEqual gives us following result. Notice there is a case that resulting in false.

// result from lodash implementation_.isEqual(a, b) // true_.isEqual(a, c) // true_.isEqual(a, d) // true_.isEqual(a, e) // true_.isEqual(b, c) // true_.isEqual(b, d) // true_.isEqual(b, e) // false_.isEqual(c, d) // true_.isEqual(c, e) // true_.isEqual(d, e) // true

Setting aside the performance concerns mentioned by lodash, your implement should not have above problem, which means above all returns true and call stack should not exceed the maximum.

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