Can't access object property, even though it shows up in a console log

Question

Below, you can see the output from these two logs. The first clearly shows the full object with the property I\'m trying to access, but on the very next line of code, I can\

Answer 1

I had a similar issue today in React. Eventually realised that the problem was being caused by the state not being set yet. I was calling user.user.name and although it was showing up in the console, I couldn't seem to access it in my component till I included a check to check if user.user was set and then calling user.user.name.