dirty

In an ORM ecosystem, it is often necessary to determine if a record has any changes to be saved or not. Dream provides powerful methods for introspecting the changing state of your model

isDirty

The isDirty will return true or false, depending on if a record has changes

const user = await User.first()
console.log(user.isDirty) // false

user.email = 'new@email'
console.log(user.isDirty) // true

changes

For more verbose information on what has changed, you can also call the changes method, which will give you an in-depth explanation of the changes for each field

const user = await User.first()
user.email = 'new@email'

console.log(user.changes())
// {
//   email: {
//     was: 'how@yadoin',
//     now: 'new@email',
//   },
// }

changedAttributes

To retrieve only the changed attributes and their values, you can use changedAttributes

const user = await User.first()
user.email = 'new@email'

console.log(user.changedAttributes())
// {
//   email: 'new@email',
// }