circumvent ERROR Converting circular structure to JSON when doing JSON.stringify()?

Question

For debugging I want to serialize javascript objects with JSON.stringify(myobject). But this gives:

TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON
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Answer 1

You can now use Douglas Crockford's JSON Stringify plugin:

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js

This has a decycle option in the download file cycle.js. You could also use console.log() and inspect the JSON in your browsers console.