Pass by value (sort of) in AngularJS by copy()ing

Recently a colleague asked about passing by value rather than JavaScript's funky pass-by-something (i.e. for an object, by value but that value is itself a reference).

Passing by value for an object is more-or-less really making a copy.

Angular provides angular.copy(source[, destination]) that will create a deep copy of the source - find the documentation here

In addition, if you want to compare two things to see if they are truly equal (i.e. a deep equals that will ignore value/reference stuff) then use angular.equals() - and that documentation is here

As always, a deep copy/equals is just that: deep. So try not to compare huge objects.

At the end of the day, my colleague found a better way of achieving her end goal - knowing about angular.copy() then would've probably resulted in a worse solution.