Tiny utility to safely stringify objects with circular references.
Replace all circular references with the string [Circular];
var circular = require('circular');
var obj = {}; var child = {parent: obj}; obj.child = child;
var str = JSON.stringify(obj, circular());
// => {"child":{"parent":"[Circular]"}}
If you prefer you can pass an alternative string to use:
var str = JSON.stringify(obj, circular('#ref'));
Or a function that returns a string:
function ref(value){return '' + value};
var str = JSON.stringify(obj, circular(ref));
As of version 1.0.4 you can also pass an additional boolean that will convert function references to strings, useful for converting javascript modules to couchdb design documents.
var str = JSON.stringify(obj, circular(null, true));
FAQs
Tiny utility to safely stringify objects with circular references
The npm package circular receives a total of 4,040 weekly downloads. As such, circular popularity was classified as popular.
We found that circular demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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