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**** NOT A DUPE *** The duplicate referenced answer refers to JSON only ****

I am looking to avoid this when logging js vars to the console:

var user = { first: 'Jack', last: 'Green', age: 54 }; // plain console log console.log(user); // or with interpolation: console.log(`User: ${user}`);

This ends up like:

{ prop1: 'value1', prop2: 2 } User: [Object object]
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    Log the variable itself rather than a .toString() version of the variable as in console.log('User: ', user);. Commented Mar 8, 2017 at 4:37

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Change the above example to:

var user = { first: 'Jack', last: 'Green', age: 54 }; // plain console log console.log(JSON.stringify(user, undefined, 2)); // or with interpolation: console.log(`User: ${JSON.stringify(user, undefined, 2)}`);

and now we get the nice looking output:

{ "first": "Jack", "last": "Green", "age": 54 } User: { "first": "Jack", "last": "Green", "age": 54 }
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That's not pretty. There's no need for quotes around keys. Please, an answer that doesn't use JSON.
Huh looks good to me- thanks for the advice - you're a true genius and obviously bored.

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