Find the common members of two Javascript objects

Question

What is the easiest way to find the common members in two Javascript objects? This question is not about equality. I don't care about the values of each member, just that they exist in both objects.

Here's what I've done so far (using underscore.js):

_.intersection(_.keys({ firstName: 'John' }), _.keys({ firstName: 'Jane', lastName: 'Doe' }))

This gives me a result of ['firstName'] as expected, but I would like to find an easier or more efficient way, preferably vanilla Javascript.

• Is there a better/easier way to do this with underscore?
• Is there a better/easier way to do this without underscore (preferred)?

Answer 1

This will work for modern browsers:

function commonKeys(a, b) {
    return Object.keys(a).filter(function (key) { 
        return b.hasOwnProperty(key); 
    });
};

// ["firstName"]
commonKeys({ firstName: 'John' }, { firstName: 'Jane', lastName: 'Doe' });

Answer 2

Sure, just iterate through the keys of one object and construct an array of the keys that the other object shares:

function commonKeys(obj1, obj2) {
  var keys = [];
  for(var i in obj1) {
    if(i in obj2) {
      keys.push(i);
    }
  }
  return keys;
}