JavaScript: Finding differences

Sometimes when coding, you have to find the difference between two data sets, such as objects. For example, when searching for differences in JSON files. There are even special services for this, such as http://www.jsondiff.com/ (try clicking on the sample data link and then the Compare button).

solution.js

Implement and export as default a function that compares two objects and returns the result of the comparison as an object. The keys of the resulting object will be all the keys from the two input objects, and the value will be a string describing the differences: added, deleted, changed, or unchanged.

Possible values are:

• added — the key was missing in the first object, but was added to the second one
• deleted — the key was in the first object, but is missing in the second one
• changed — the key was in both the first and the second objects, but the values are different
• unchanged — the key was was in the first and second objects with the same values

import genDiff from './diffGenerator.js';

genDiff(
  { one: 'eon', two: 'two', four: true },
  { two: 'own', zero: 4, four: true },
);
// {
//   one: 'deleted',
//   two: 'changed',
//   four: 'unchanged',
//   zero: 'added',
// }