Write objects into file with Node.js

Question

I\'ve searched all over stackoverflow / google for this, but can\'t seem to figure it out.

I\'m scraping social media links of a given URL page, and the function re

Answer 1

In my experience JSON.stringify is slightly faster than util.inspect. I had to save the result object of a DB2 query as a json file, The query returned an object of 92k rows, the conversion took very long to complete with util.inspect, so I did the following test by writing the same 1000 record object to a file with both methods.

1. JSON.Stringify

   fs.writeFile('./data.json', JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2));
   

Time: 3:57 (3 min 57 sec)

Result's format:

[
  {
    "PROB": "00001",
    "BO": "AXZ",
    "CNTRY": "649"
   },
  ...
]

2. util.inspect

   var util = require('util');
   fs.writeFile('./data.json', util.inspect(obj, false, 2, false));
   

Time: 4:12 (4 min 12 sec)

Result's format:

[ { PROB: '00001',
    BO: 'AXZ',
    CNTRY: '649' },
    ...
]