The latest articles on DEV Community by Peter Ellis (@almostconverge). https://dev.to/almostconverge https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F88752%2F4affc903-7bb9-422b-ac59-eb1fde7939bb.jpg https://dev.to/almostconverge en Peter Ellis Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:07:33 +0000 https://dev.to/almostconverge/i-was-today-years-old-when-i-found-out-1clh https://dev.to/almostconverge/i-was-today-years-old-when-i-found-out-1clh <p>The other day I was debugging a page in Chrome: I was staring at a really complex object that had just been logged to the console, looking for a field with a specific name. If only they'd stringified it before logging, I could then copy it into an editor.</p> <p>So I just lazily right-clicked the object and...</p> <p><a href="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2FB3fSVzf%2Fstore.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2FB3fSVzf%2Fstore.png" alt="Store as global variable"></a></p> <p>How had I missed this before?</p> <p><a href="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2F5R3MKcP%2Fimage.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2F5R3MKcP%2Fimage.png" alt="...and we've got the object as raw `temp1` endraw !"></a></p> <p>I could now call <code>JSON.stringify(temp1)</code> and the field is mine!</p> <p>Of course I checked in Firefox two minutes later and found out they'd implemented not just this feature but "Copy object" too, which would reveal the JSON in a single step.</p> <p>But I'll still treasure "Store as global variable" because it also allows you to manipulate said object or call functions.</p> <p>Ignorance is like a very loud jackhammer, it feels great to take a step away from it.</p> webdev javascript console