// This example shows how prefiltering can be used. const diff = require('../'); // deep-diff const { log, inspect } = require('util'); const assert = require('assert'); const data = { issue: 126, submittedBy: 'abuzarhamza', title: 'readme.md need some additional example prefilter', posts: [ { date: '2018-04-16', text: `additional example for prefilter for deep-diff would be great. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38364639/pre-filter-condition-deep-diff-node-js` } ] }; const clone = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data)); clone.title = 'README.MD needs additional example illustrating how to prefilter'; clone.disposition = 'completed'; const two = diff(data, clone); const none = diff(data, clone, (path, key) => path.length === 0 && ~['title', 'disposition'].indexOf(key) ); assert.equal(two.length, 2, 'should reflect two differences'); assert.ok(typeof none === 'undefined', 'should reflect no differences'); log(inspect(two, false, 9)); log(inspect(none, false, 9));