You don't need a library or check that it isn't an array or anything like that. What you actually want to check is what it _is_.

You absolutely don't care whether that object is an array or a function or what have you. What you care about in that piece of code is that it satisfies what you want to do with it.

In the context of the article you can do an ad-hoc check on the fields that you require in that context.

Aside:

There are places where you want to have a kind of rigidity around the shape of your objects, including homogeneous collections. The JIT might reward you with optimizations in certain cases. But that is optimization, so you are supposed to measure first and only then apply them or have a very clear picture of how your runtime behavior will be.

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/master/isObject.js

But depends on your needs, and you can also attach a typeguard to it.

You'll also get notified of any security issues in your lodash imports if your CI pipeline is setup for doing that kind of thing.

its typical to start off with `var &&` to avoid operations on null & undefined values

!!(x && x.__proto__ === [].__proto__)

> if(entry && entry.constructor === Object){}

    entry = Object.create(null);
    entry.name = "Jason";
    entry.age = 42;
    entry.constructor === Object // false - constructor is undefined.

    entry = []
    entry['name'] = "Jason";
    entry['age'] = 42;

    function isHuman(obj: unknown): obj is Human {
      return !!obj && 
        typeof obj === 'object' &&
        typeof (obj as any).name === 'string' &&
        typeof (obj as any).age === 'number';
    }

tl;dr: Object.prototype.toString.call, you most likely to also want to exclude null, RegExp, Function, Date, Number, Boolean & String (not string)