Clarify

clarify-js is a small utility library with the intent of simplifying and/or serializing javascript objects. We all know about JSON.stringify, but if any of us have ever tried serializing an Error object, we know it doesn't always work how we might expect.

JSON.stringify has two core properties that sometimes make it hard to cache our javascript objects:

• It does not serialize properties on the prototype
• It will not serialize properties that are non-enumerable

Now hopefully you will go your entire career without needing clarify-js, as most of the time the objects you are serializing are fully in your control. In the event that you're working with a package or library that generates these difficult to work with objects, it's this simple:

import clarify from "clarify-js";

const simplifiedObject = clarify(nonEnumerableObject);
const json = JSON.stringify(simplifiedObject);

OR

import { serialize } from "clarify-js";

const json = serialize(nonEnumerableObject);

For those of you not using import:

const clarify = require("clarify-js").default;

const simplifiedObject = clarify(nonEnumerableObject);