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A developer asked an AI assistant to deep-clone a settings object before mutating it inside a reducer. The suggested code runs the import fine but throws the moment the function is actually called.

settings.js

const _ = require('lodash');

function updateSettings(settings, patch) {
  const draft = _.deepClone(settings);
  Object.assign(draft, patch);
  return draft;
}

module.exports = { updateSettings };

What happens when updateSettings runs?

Object.assign throws because draft is undefined at that point.

TypeError: _.deepClone is not a function. Lodash's deep-clone method is named cloneDeep, not deepClone.

The function works correctly; there is no bug here.

The settings object clones correctly but the patch is applied in the wrong order.