Shallow Equality Check

The `shallow-equal` library provides minimalistic, TypeScript-compatible utilities for performing shallow equality checks on arrays and objects. It currently stands at version 3.1.0, offering highly optimized functions like `shallowEqualArrays` and `shallowEqualObjects` for specific data types, alongside a generic `shallowEqual` function that includes runtime type checking. The project emphasizes being super light with no external dependencies, ensuring a small footprint. Its release cadence is stable, focusing on minor enhancements and maintenance rather than frequent, large-scale breaking changes, typical for foundational utility packages. A key differentiator is its explicit separation of array and object equality functions, allowing developers to choose the most performant option when the type is known, avoiding the overhead of runtime type inference inherent in more generic solutions.