How can I make console.log show the current state of an object?

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I think you’re looking for console.dir().

console.log() doesn’t do what you want because it prints a reference to the object, and by the time you pop it open, it’s changed. console.dir prints a directory of the properties in the object at the time you call it.

The JSON idea below is a good one; you could even go on to parse the JSON string and get a browsable object like what .dir() would give you:

console.log(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj)));

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