Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· dpashkevich

Quickly dump an object at unlimited depth

In NodeJS, console.log and console.dir would only go 2 levels deep when displaying your object (you see [Object] instead of actual contents of nested objects).

Here's a snippet that always displays the entire tree:

console.log(util.inspect(result, false, null));

Docs on util.inspect

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