Detecting and fixing circular references in JavaScript

Question

Given I have a circular reference in a large JavaScript object

And I try JSON.stringify(problematicObject)

And the browser throws

Answer 1

I converted the answer of Freddie Nfbnm to TypeScript:

export class JsonUtil {

    static isCyclic(json) {
        const keys = [];
        const stack = [];
        const stackSet = new Set();
        let detected = false;

        function detect(obj, key) {
            if (typeof obj !== 'object') {
                return;
            }

            if (stackSet.has(obj)) { // it's cyclic! Print the object and its locations.
                const oldIndex = stack.indexOf(obj);
                const l1 = keys.join('.') + '.' + key;
                const l2 = keys.slice(0, oldIndex + 1).join('.');
                console.log('CIRCULAR: ' + l1 + ' = ' + l2 + ' = ' + obj);
                console.log(obj);
                detected = true;
                return;
            }

            keys.push(key);
            stack.push(obj);
            stackSet.add(obj);
            for (const k in obj) { // dive on the object's children
                if (obj.hasOwnProperty(k)) {
                    detect(obj[k], k);
                }
            }

            keys.pop();
            stack.pop();
            stackSet.delete(obj);
            return;
        }

        detect(json, 'obj');
        return detected;
    }

}