Use _.runInContext

[jdalton]

You can use:

var _ = require('lodash').runInContext();

to create a pristine lodash function that can be extended with mixins without causing potential conflicts with the lodash package.

[jonschlinkert]

I was just wondering about this and planning to look into it, thanks! how did you read my mind lol.

I'm curious, does Lo-Dash by any chance also offer a clean way avoiding potential conflicts between functions passed on imports and same-named properties on the context, for example, when both foo and foo() are passed?

[jdalton]

_.mixin overwrites existing methods. You could run an _.omit over the object you provide to it:

_.mixin(_.omit(object, _.functions(_)));

[jonschlinkert]

Hmm, that's similar to the thinking behind what I was doing here, without knowing that mixin would override methods no matter what. Thanks for the feedback.