30-seconds-of-code/snippets/isPlainObject.md

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title	tags	expertise	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Value is plain object	type,object	intermediate	2018-01-19T13:59:12+02:00	2020-10-20T23:02:01+03:00

Checks if the provided value is an object created by the Object constructor.

• Check if the provided value is truthy.
• Use typeof to check if it is an object and Object.prototype.constructor to make sure the constructor is equal to Object.

const isPlainObject = val =>
  !!val && typeof val === 'object' && val.constructor === Object;

isPlainObject({ a: 1 }); // true
isPlainObject(new Map()); // false