danialdezfouli / microdiff

A fast, zero dependency object and array comparison library. Significantly faster than most other deep comparison libraries and has full TypeScript support.

Microdiff is a tiny (currently <1kb), fast, zero dependency object and array comparison library. It is significantly faster than most other deep comparison libraries, and has full TypeScript support.

Features

• 🚀 More than double the speed of other object diff libraries
• 📦 Extremely lightweight, <1kb minified
• 🌎 Supports Deno, Node, the web, and even service workers. Also comes with built in Typescript types
• 🔰 Very easy to use, having just a single diff() function
• 📅 Full support for objects like new Date() and new RegExp()

Get started

First, install Microdiff

npm i microdiff

If you are using Deno, you can import it from Deno.land with the link https://deno.land/x/microdiff@VERSION/index.ts (remember to change @VERSION to the version you want to use).

After you install it, simply import it and run it on two objects.

import diff from "microdiff";

const obj1 = {
	originalProperty: true,
};
const obj2 = {
	originalProperty: true,
	newProperty: "new",
};

console.log(diff(obj1, obj2));
// [{type: "CREATE", path: ["newProperty"], value: "new"}]

If you are using CommonJS, you can import it like this:

const diff = require("microdiff").default;

There are three different types of changes. CREATE, REMOVE, and CHANGE. The path property gives a path to the property in the new object (or the old object in the case of REMOVE). Each element in the paths is a key to the next property a level deeper until you get to the property changed, and it is string or a number, depending on whether the object is an Array or Object (Objects with number keys will still be strings). The value property exists in types CREATE and CHANGE, and it contains the value of the property added/changed.

Cycles support

By default cycles are supported, but if you are sure that the object has no cycles (for example if you are parsing JSON) you can disable cycles using the cyclesFix option.

diff(obj1, obj2, { cyclesFix: false });

Benchmarks

Benchmarks: Small object
deep-diff: 17929ns - 409% slower
deep-object-diff: 10763ns - 206% slower
jsdiff: 79700ns - 2164% slower
microdiff: 3520ns - Fastest

Benchmarks: Large Object
deep-diff: 272887ns - 259% slower
deep-object-diff: 160019ns - 111% slower
jsdiff: 1688294ns - 2123% slower
microdiff: 75934ns - Fastest

These benchmarks are currently only for one small object and a very large object, so they might not be accurate. I will be working on creating benchmarks with more varying types.