how to use the clonewith function from lodash in javascript

_.cloneWith is a function in lodash which creates a shallow cloned object for the given object with the given customizer.

Here is a simple example to demonstrate how to use cloneWith():

index.tsx
const _ = require('lodash');
const obj = { a: 1, b: 2 };
const copyObj = _.cloneWith(obj, _.identity);

console.log(copyObj); // { a: 1, b: 2 }
console.log(copyObj === obj); // false
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In the above code, we have imported the lodash library, created an object obj with properties a and b. Then, we used _.cloneWith() to clone the object obj and store it in copyObj. The _.identity is a customizer which returns the same value as it takes. In this case, it returns the same value of the property.

Finally, we log the copyObj to the console to see that it has the same properties as the obj object. We also check if the copyObj and the obj are strictly not equal indicating that they are different objects in the memory.

Note: _.cloneWith() only does a shallow clone of an object. If an object has properties that are objects, then only the references to those objects are copied, not the objects themselves.

I hope this helps you in understanding how to use cloneWith() function from lodash in JavaScript.