How to detect that it can be merged between multiple elements in an array at node.

Prerequisites

There are arrays has multiple elements as below.

const mergeableArray = [
  {
    'age': 18,
    'status': true
  },
  {
    'hobby': 'fishing'
  },
  {
    'status': null
  }
];

const unmergeableArray = [
  {
    'age': 18,
    'status': true
  },
  {
    'hobby': 'fishing'
  },
  {
    'age': 24,
    'status': null
  }
];

Environment

• node
• lodash

Code

const lodash = require('lodash');

console.log(isMergeableArray(mergeableArray));
// => true

console.log(isMergeableArray(unmergeableArray));
// => false

function isMergeableArray(array) {
  let is_mergeable = true;
  let result = array.reduce(function(res, obj){
    Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(k){
      res[k] = res[k] || [];
      res[k] = res[k].concat(obj[k]);
      res[k] = lodash(res[k]).uniq().compact().value();
   });
   return res;
  },{});
  lodash.pickBy(result, (item, key) => {
    if (item.length > 1) {
      is_mergeable = false;
    } else {
      // do nothing...
    }
  });
  return is_mergeable;
}

If you want to distinguish difference of falsy values(false, null, 0, "", undefined, and NaN), you can use code as below.

const lodash = require('lodash');

console.log(isMergeableArray(mergeableArray));
// => false ( cause this code distinguish status: true and status: null. )

console.log(isMergeableArray(unmergeableArray));
// => false

function isMergeableArray(array) {
  let is_mergeable = true;
  let result = array.reduce(function(res, obj){
    Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(k){
      res[k] = res[k] || [];
      res[k] = res[k].concat(obj[k]);
      res[k] = lodash(res[k]).uniq().value(); // <= remove compact()
   });
   return res;
  },{});
  lodash.pickBy(result, (item, key) => {
    if (item.length > 1) {
      is_mergeable = false;
    } else {
      // do nothing...
    }
  });
  return is_mergeable;
}