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Re: caveats, if you want to snapshot something at a point in time but still have it look nice:

    console.log(JSON.stringify(someObject, null, 2))

Will nicely indent it for you.

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two things about the `null` - the "replacer" function

1. in IE 8, it will choke. it needs to be a function (hopefully you don't have to care about IE 8, though)

2. in all other JSON.strigifable browsers, you can skip it with a falsey value, which is what the `null` is doing here. As a result, you can also use `0` (e.g. stringinfy(foo, 0, 2)), which I like because I can type it faster

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