var_dump (PHP) equivalent for node.js

There is a npm package called circular-json, it's very good to use. I wonder why it is not built-in...

To get what you’d get in the console by using console.log as a string for sending to the client as part of your response, you can use util.inspect.

"use strict";

const http = require("http");
const util = require("util");

http.createServer((request, response) => {
    response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain;charset=utf-8");
    response.end(util.inspect(request));
}).listen(8000, "::1");

You can simply use the NPM package var_dump

npm install var_dump --save-dev

Usage:

const var_dump = require('var_dump')
    
var variable = {
  'data': {
    'users': {
      'id': 12,
      'friends': [{
        'id': 1,
        'name': 'John Doe'
      }]
    }
  }
}
 
// print the variable using var_dump
var_dump(variable)

This will print:

object(1) {
    ["data"] => object(1) {
        ["users"] => object(2) {
            ["id"] => number(12)
            ["friends"] => array(1) {
                [0] => object(2) {
                    ["id"] => number(1)
                    ["name"] => string(8) "John Doe"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/var_dump

Thank me later!