Interesting fact for completeness: The JSON counterpart of toString() is toJSON(). If an object has a toJSON() method, it will be evaluated and its result will be stringified instead:
That sounds... useful? 🙈
But yeah, it's a feature that I as well only discovered after many years of JS experience and since have never used in production. It's pretty cool though.
Interesting fact for completeness: The JSON counterpart of
toString()
istoJSON()
. If an object has atoJSON()
method, it will be evaluated and its result will be stringified instead:Nice! I wasn't aware of that!
Then we could potentially override that method to get
[object Object]
when converting it to JSON.That sounds... useful? 🙈
But yeah, it's a feature that I as well only discovered after many years of JS experience and since have never used in production. It's pretty cool though.
Oh, and also the result would in fact be
"[object Object]"
. The quotes are part of the serialized result (since it needs to be valid JSON).I mean, the specification is that the object gets converted to a string. About the actual content of the string, the OP said nothing 😝