Printing out entire JavaScript objects
Sometimes you want to print out more than just two levels of depth of a JavaScript object before seeing [object Object]
all over the place and not having any additional visibility. Take a look at this object:
obj =
a:
b:
c: 1
If you wanted to see the value of c
and used console.log
to print the object, you would see {a: {b: [object Object]}}
. Nothing about c
at all.
Instead of using console.log
, you can use console.dir
which essentially aliases right to util.inspect
which can also be used to print the whole object. Use console.dir(object, {depth: null})
to print out the entire object, or specify a custom depth if you don't care about any data past a certain level. Hopefully this is as useful to you as it was to me when attempting to debug large objects.