Convert JS object to JSON string

Question

If I defined an object in JS with:

var j={\"name\":\"binchen\"};

How can I convert the object to JSON? The output string should be:

Answer 1

For debugging in Node JS you can use util.inspect(). It works better with circular references.

var util = require('util');
var j = {name: "binchen"};
console.log(util.inspect(j));