console.log inconsistent with JSON.stringify

Question

I have reason to believe console.log and JSON.stringify can produce inconsistent views of the same object even if it was created in a straightforward m

Answer 1

To answer the question - yes, console.log operations are asynchronous so can't be relied upon to print accurate values in the console - especially if you modify the printed object straight after the console.log call (like you are doing).

If you take away the line:

obj.players = {};

then both the differences between the plain console.log and the JSON.stringify dissappear.

Bearing in mind that there is a difference between logging a real object in a developer tools console (console.log(obj) and printing the stringified version of the object (console.log(JSON.stringify(obj))). So the representation of the object will still be different.