JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/lodash/4.17.4/lodash.min.js"></script>
<div id="question">
</div>
JavaScript
function test(o) {
console.log("Object:", o);
console.log("x:", o.x);
console.log("Assign test:", Object.assign({}, o));
console.log("_.assignIn", _.assignIn({}, o));
console.log("Keys test:", Object.keys(o));
console.log("JSON test:", JSON.stringify(o));
}
var el = document.getElementById("question"); /* or document.body */
test(el.style); /* works as expected */
test(el.getBoundingClientRect()); /* behaves like {} */
test(Object.assign(el.getBoundingClientRect(),{aaaa: 1111})); /* works... only for aaaa */