# isobject [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/isobject.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/isobject) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/isobject.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/isobject) > Returns true if the value is an object and not an array or null. Use [is-plain-object](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-plain-object) if you want only objects that are created by the `Object` constructor. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) ```sh $ npm i isobject --save ``` Install with [bower](http://bower.io/) ```sh $ bower install isobject --save ``` ## Usage ```js var isObject = require('isobject'); ``` **True** All of the following return `true`: ```js isObject({}); isObject(Object.create({})); isObject(Object.create(Object.prototype)); isObject(Object.create(null)); isObject({}); isObject(new Foo); isObject(/foo/); ``` **False** All of the following return `false`: ```js isObject(); isObject(function () {}); isObject(1); isObject([]); isObject(undefined); isObject(null); ``` ## Related projects * [assign-deep](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/assign-deep): Deeply assign the enumerable properties of source objects to a destination object. * [extend-shallow](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/extend-shallow): Extend an object with the properties of additional objects. node.js/javascript util. * [is-plain-object](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-plain-object): Returns true if an object was created by the `Object` constructor. * [is-extendable](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-extendable): Returns true if a value is any of the object types: array, regexp, plain object,… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-extendable) * [is-equal-shallow](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-equal-shallow): Does a shallow comparison of two objects, returning false if the keys or values differ. * [kind-of](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/kind-of): Get the native type of a value. ## Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/isobject/issues/new) ## Author **Jon Schlinkert** + [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) + [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright © 2014-2015 [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) Released under the MIT license. *** _This file was generated by [verb-cli](https://github.com/assemble/verb-cli) on July 20, 2015._