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Workaround of [object Object]

Tsumuri on March 26, 2022

When JavaScript handles an object such as json andthe result is output, [object Object] maybe displayed. This is because we are trying to outpu...
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Don Tay •

To add on, if you would like to pretty print the json object, you can this:

JSON.stringify(json_object, null, 2);
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Instead of printing an object like this (as in the original example):

{a: {b: 1}}
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it will print it like this:

{
  a: {
    b: 1
  }
}
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Tsumuri •

Very descriptive description. Thank you.