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JSON is not a subset of JavaScript. I need my output to be 100% valid JavaScript; it will be evaluated as such -- i.e., JSON.stringify will not (always) work for my needs.
Is there a JavaScript stringifier for Node?
As a bonus, it would be nice if it could stringify objects.
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Stringify a JavaScript ObjectUse the JavaScript function JSON.stringify() to convert it into a string. const myJSON = JSON.stringify(obj); The result will be a string following the JSON notation.
JSON.stringify() The JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string, optionally replacing values if a replacer function is specified or optionally including only the specified properties if a replacer array is specified.
The JSON. stringify() method in Javascript is used to create a JSON string out of it. While developing an application using JavaScript, many times it is needed to serialize the data to strings for storing the data into a database or for sending the data to an API or web server.
stringify() ignores functions/methods when serializing. JSON also can't encode circular references. Most other serialization formats have this limitation as well but since JSON looks like javascript syntax some people assume it can do what javascript object literals can.
You can use JSON.stringify and afterwards replace the remaining U+2028 and U+2029 characters. As the article linked states, the characters can only occur in the strings, so we can safely replace them by their escaped versions without worrying about replacing characters where we should not be replacing them:
JSON.stringify('ro\u2028cks').replace(/\u2028/g,'\\u2028').replace(/\u2029/g,'\\u2029')From the last paragraph in the article you linked:
The solution
Luckily, the solution is simple: If we look at the JSON specification we see that the only place where a U+2028 or U+2029 can occur is in a string. Therefore we can simply replace every U+2028 with \u2028 (the escape sequence) and U+2029 with \u2029 whenever we need to send out some JSONP.
It’s already been fixed in Rack::JSONP and I encourage all frameworks or libraries that send out JSONP to do the same. It’s a one-line patch in most languages and the result is still 100% valid JSON.
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