fast-safe-stringify
Safely and quickly serialize JavaScript objects
Detects circular dependencies instead of throwing
(as per usual JSON.stringify usage)
Usage
var safeStringify = require('fast-safe-stringify')
var o = {a: 1}
o.o = o
console.log(safeStringify(o))
console.log(JSON.stringify(o)) //<-- throwsBenchmarks
The json-stringify-safe module supplies similar functionality with more info and flexibility.
Although not JSON, the core util.inspect method can be used for similar purposes (e.g. logging) and also handles circular references.
Here we compare fast-safe-stringify with these alternatives:
inspectBench*10000: 132.456ms
jsonStringifySafeBench*10000: 67.382ms
fastSafeStringifyBench*10000: 31.672ms
inspectDeepBench*10000: 1632.687ms
jsonStringifySafeDeepBench*10000: 1062.449ms
fastSafeStringifyDeepBench*10000: 177.926msfast-safe-stringify is 2x faster for small objects,
and 6x faster for large objects than json-stringify-safe.
fast-safe-stringify is 4x faster for small objects,
and 9x faster for large objects than util.inspect.
Acknowledgements
Sponsored by nearForm
License
MIT