I need to copy moment to a new variable without references.

let momentDate  = moment('2018-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD');

// I need to create a full clone of moment here
// Tried: 
// -- let copy = {...moment}   
// -- let copy = new(moment)   
// -- let copy = clone(moment) // 
// -- let copy = Object.assign({}, moment)
let momentCopy  = /*new*/ moment; 

momentCopy.fn.xFormat = function() {
    return this.format('[new-format-fn::]' + 'YYYY-MM-DD')
}

// expected Error:momentDate.xFormat is not a function
// but xFormat applied to momentDate
log(momentDate.xFormat()); 

log(momentCopy().xFormat())

Can anyone help me?

jsfiddle example

I need to copy moment to a new variable without references.

let momentDate  = moment('2018-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD');

// I need to create a full clone of moment here
// Tried: 
// -- let copy = {...moment}   
// -- let copy = new(moment)   
// -- let copy = clone(moment) // https://www.npmjs./package/clone
// -- let copy = Object.assign({}, moment)
let momentCopy  = /*new*/ moment; 

momentCopy.fn.xFormat = function() {
    return this.format('[new-format-fn::]' + 'YYYY-MM-DD')
}

// expected Error:momentDate.xFormat is not a function
// but xFormat applied to momentDate
log(momentDate.xFormat()); 

log(momentCopy().xFormat())

Can anyone help me?

jsfiddle example

• javascript
• momentjs

3 Answers 3

Use moment(Moment); to clone a moment object.

And moment.fn is moment prototype. If you want to add custom method to copied object, you can set as momentCopy.xFormat = function(){}

let momentDate  = moment('2018-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD');

let momentCopy  = moment(momentDate); 

momentCopy.xFormat = function() {
    return this.format('[new-format-fn::]' + 'YYYY-MM-DD')
}
console.log(momentCopy.xFormat())

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From the docs,

All moments are mutable. If you want a clone of a moment, you can do so implicitly or explicitly. Calling moment() on a moment will clone it.

So just provide it back to moment( momentObj )

Import "cloneDeep" from "Lodash" and then

let momentCopy  = cloneDeep(moment); 

should work for you.