transform object to array with lodash

You can do

var arr = _.values(obj);

For documentation see here.

A modern native solution if anyone is interested:

const arr = Object.keys(obj).map(key => ({ key, value: obj[key] }));

or (not IE):

const arr = Object.entries(obj).map(([key, value]) => ({ key, value }));

_.toArray(obj);

Outputs as:

[
  {
    "name": "Ivan",
    "id": 12,
    "friends": [
      2,
      44,
      12
    ],
    "works": {
      "books": [],
      "films": []
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "John",
    "id": 22,
    "friends": [
      5,
      31,
      55
    ],
    "works": {
      "books": [],
      "films": []
    }
  }
]"