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self.structuredClone()

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 98)

Intent stage

Shipped

Summary

Enables using the HTML structured clone algorithm synchronously for cloning and transferring objects within a single realm.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#structured-cloning
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive — (and following comments) There seems to be a lot of demand for a built-in deep clone, and while structured clone is not exactly that, it fulfills many of the use cases.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1233571

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