Pretty Printing JSON with React

Question

You'll need to either insert BR tag appropriately in the resulting string, or use for example a PRE tag so that the formatting of the stringify is retained:

var data = { a: 1, b: 2 };

var Hello = React.createClass({
    render: function() {
        return <div><pre>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) }</pre></div>;
    }
});

React.render(<Hello />, document.getElementById('container'));

Working example.

Update

class PrettyPrintJson extends React.Component {
    render() {
         // data could be a prop for example
         // const { data } = this.props;
         return (<div><pre>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) }</pre></div>);
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(<PrettyPrintJson/>, document.getElementById('container'));

Stateless Functional component, React .14 or higher

const PrettyPrintJson = ({data}) => {
    // (destructured) data could be a prop for example
    return (<div><pre>{ JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) }</pre></div>);
}

Or, ...

const PrettyPrintJson = ({data}) => (<div><pre>{ 
    JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) }</pre></div>);

Working example

Memo / 16.6+

(You might even want to use a memo, 16.6+)

const PrettyPrintJson = React.memo(({data}) => (<div><pre>{
    JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) }</pre></div>));

Just to extend on the WiredPrairie's answer a little, a mini component that can be opened and closed.

Can be used like:

<Pretty data={this.state.data}/>

export default React.createClass({

    style: {
        backgroundColor: '#1f4662',
        color: '#fff',
        fontSize: '12px',
    },

    headerStyle: {
        backgroundColor: '#193549',
        padding: '5px 10px',
        fontFamily: 'monospace',
        color: '#ffc600',
    },

    preStyle: {
        display: 'block',
        padding: '10px 30px',
        margin: '0',
        overflow: 'scroll',
    },

    getInitialState() {
        return {
            show: true,
        };
    },

    toggle() {
        this.setState({
            show: !this.state.show,
        });
    },

    render() {
        return (
            <div style={this.style}>
                <div style={this.headerStyle} onClick={ this.toggle }>
                    <strong>Pretty Debug</strong>
                </div>
                {( this.state.show ?
                    <pre style={this.preStyle}>
                        {JSON.stringify(this.props.data, null, 2) }
                    </pre> : false )}
            </div>
        );
    }
});

Update

A more modern approach (now that createClass is on the way out)

import styles from './DebugPrint.css'

import autoBind from 'react-autobind'
import classNames from 'classnames'
import React from 'react'

export default class DebugPrint extends React.PureComponent {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    autoBind(this)
    this.state = {
      show: false,
    }
  }    

  toggle() {
    this.setState({
      show: !this.state.show,
    });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div style={styles.root}>
        <div style={styles.header} onClick={this.toggle}>
          <strong>Debug</strong>
        </div>
        {this.state.show 
          ? (
            <pre style={styles.pre}>
              {JSON.stringify(this.props.data, null, 2) }
            </pre>
          )
          : null
        }
      </div>
    )
  }
}

And your style file

.root { backgroundColor: '#1f4662'; color: '#fff'; fontSize: '12px'; }

.header { backgroundColor: '#193549'; padding: '5px 10px'; fontFamily: 'monospace'; color: '#ffc600'; }

.pre { display: 'block'; padding: '10px 30px'; margin: '0'; overflow: 'scroll'; }

The 'react-json-view' provides solution rendering json string.

import ReactJson from 'react-json-view';
<ReactJson src={my_important_json} theme="monokai" />

const getJsonIndented = (obj) => JSON.stringify(newObj, null, 4).replace(/["{[,\}\]]/g, "")

const JSONDisplayer = ({children}) => (
    <div>
        <pre>{getJsonIndented(children)}</pre>
    </div>
)

Then you can easily use it:

const Demo = (props) => {
   ....
   return <JSONDisplayer>{someObj}<JSONDisplayer>
}

TLDR

Pretty Print JSON in React

<pre>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}</pre>

Short and Simple

<div>
  <pre dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
     __html: JSON.stringify(data, null, 2),
  }} />
</div>