isModified helper
Author: MangattCreated Jan 3, 2025Updated Oct 30, 2025
Labelsproposal
Feature Proposal
It would be great to have isModified helper, much like isDraft or current functions.
Motivation
More efficient updates of derived data in draft. Immer currently do have all necessary information, in it's essence it is stripped down version of current.
Can this be solved in user-land code?
It can be solved in following ways:
- You can compare
currentwithoriginalin draft - but that's unnecessarily expensive for simple yes/no query - You can
finishDraft, compare with original, thencreateDraftagain if necessary
Example
produce(deeplyNestedObject, (draft) => {
performOpaqueDeeplyNestedUpdates(draft)
if(isModified(draft.item)){
draft.item.modifiedOn = new Date()
}
})Source: immerjs/immer