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Andy Simmons
Courses Plus Student 3,734 PointsHow to augment and avoid over writing an object that's being passed into a module
I just watched https://teamtreehouse.com/library/the-module-pattern-in-javascript
At about 10:55, an object is passed into the module, if it exists, otherwise an empty object.
Assuming the object being passed in exists, the code in the module is assigning a completely new object to the object reference. This means the passed in object has been over written with a totally new object.
Just a bit concerned about this and whether further checks should be made whether to augment the object with properties if it exists otherwise to assign it a new object.