Why use Object.assign?

[vedantroy]

Is there any reason this code does the following:

     request.mikroORM = {
        orm: Object.assign({}, this.mikroORM.orm)
      }

instead of:

     request.mikroORM = {
        orm: this.mikroORM.orm
      }

or even just:

request.mikroORM = this.mikroORM

Presumably Object.assign is a shallow copy anyways?

[serdnam]

I did it this way so that the mikroORM attribute on the request object is not the same reference as the one on the Fastify object itself, I thought that could probably be problematic.