Recently, I had to implement a clone button at work.

Unfortunately, the copied item had a attribute items that was a list. Whenever the cloned item changed or the original item changed, they both were updating. This is common problem in both Python and JS.

above - reference issue with cloned items

Unfortunately, underscore.js only has a shallow copy _.clone

The solution is easier than I thought it was going to be:

var copiedItems = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(items));

That’s it! A hacky well supported way to deep copy.