Deepclone javascript function

deepClone.js

function deepClone(object) {
    //first check if it is any of the types seen as object in javascript
    if(typeof object !== 'object'){
        throw new Error('please provide an object')
    }
    /*
        We need to compare using Object.prototype because typeof only comparse by type and type for dates and arrays are always object. While Object.prototype compares the constructor
    */
    var clone = Object.prototype.toString.call(object) !== '[object Object]' ? object:{}
    for(var i in object) {
        /*
            when the current iteration of the object isn't null and is of type object recursively clone. Because of the comparison we already made with clone above it will return the correct object type and not {}
        */
        if(object[i] != null &&  typeof(object[i])=="object")
            clone[i] = deepClone(object[i]);
        else
            clone[i] = object[i];
    }
    return clone;
}