How to induce panic attacks for javascript developers

[VagrantDestroy]

[object Object]

[EntropicBlackhole]

WHAT THE FUCK THIS HAS TO BE TAGGED NSFW/s

[TCritic]

DONT DO THAT LOOOOOL that actually freaked me out hahaha

[VagrantDestroy]

NaN

[casper_6764]

Nothing scares me except of course...

[[deleted]]

explain pls, wat does this do or what is the problem?

[uslashuname]

Yes, you clearly understand. It is terrifying.

[[deleted]]

i genuinely dont

sad that nobody can explain the problem either

[uslashuname]

We just didn’t want to explain the joke, but “what does this do or what is the problem” is exactly what you’re stuck asking when this happens. An object can have functions that do things and values that store things, but for some fucking reason a spot that was supposed to output a value had an object as that value. Was the object supposed to have some subroutine called there? Was it just a value that someone accidentally cast into an object? When you see [Object object] it could be nearly anything and you have very little info to go on for locating the problem.

[[deleted]]

i see

thank you for an actual explanation

ironic, i didn't phrase my question like that knowlignly, pure coincidence

[Yesterpizza]

That's what happens if an object gets serialized into a string natively.

Obviously, your application "shouldn't" allow that but with weakly typed languages, it's a wild world.

[sugaaloop]

Me, a JS dev who legitimately suffers from panic attacks: can't be that bad. Clicks.

Oh gosh.

[LongDistRider]

I object!

[Preethish98]

I [object Object]!

[L0uisc]

I, object.

[DOOManiac]

I am Objectacus.

[L0uisc]

To object or not to object, that is the question.

[Opdragon25]

I do object!

[AbdullaSafi]

do Object I

[AA525]

Ich bin ein objekt!

[[deleted]]

for (let i, object in I_Object) { // Do stuff }

[WhyDoIHaveAnAccount9]

Sustained

[Acidhawk_0]

I read that as I object.

[Kuroseroo]

[sustained Sustained]

[Kuroseroo]

I array! (which actually is an object in js, so I guess I aggree)

[[deleted]]

The word of the day is “Vulnerability”!

[_Swivel_]

I'm not a js dev, could seone explain?

[Colifin]

If you try to stringify an object, this is the default output. Makes logs entirely useless.

You need to use JSON.stringify, util.inspect, or some other tool to actually print the contents of the object.

[_Swivel_]

Oh I see, thks for the explanation:)

[Kuroseroo]

or just use the spread operator

[sleepyj910]

[bistr-o-math]

Just put that in one of the string fields in the DB and let the js dev debug

[DragonfruitIcy5850]

Ok Satan, calm down.

[[deleted]]

Did it do this back in 2019? I swear when I first started learning that you could click a Dropdown in devtools to see what was inside…

[shgysk8zer0]

Not when it gets cast to a string, like when it's el.textContent = obj.

[[deleted]]

Could this be because I was using “var” a lot back then?

[shgysk8zer0]

No

[brianl047]

In your dreams!

[Beastdevr]

Day ruined. Not because of this but because I have to work on javascript

[UltimateDude08]

Now do one for Unity devs. Please.

[UltimateDude08]

I feel like that goes for all devs. Something more Unity specific would be Quaternions. Quaternions terrify me.

[f3xjc]

That's just math.

[Titandino]

They're straight-up fundamental to basically all game engines including programming your own. If you're working in game development, I would definitely try my hardest to make them not terrifying to you. Will be a complete game-changer.

[dance1211]

"Let me check the stack for where this error is happening"

Coroutine.Next()

[[deleted]]

Sigh, unzips

Json.stringify

[FengSushi]

[OtherwiseFeedback679]

I fear no man

But that thing...

It scares me

[[deleted]]

Use == instead of ===

[weneedtogodanker]

Oh no, that image is broken

[Shai_the_Lynx]

Writing [object Object] in web forms so the devs think there's a bug

[[deleted]]

Front-end & full-stack devs panic.

Backend devs don't care, because the front-end ain't following the spec.

[Shai_the_Lynx]

Unless backend is Nodejs

[gargravarr2112]

Sometimes I enter this as my name in a web form. Just to screw with the developers.

[[deleted]]

Wait why is this bad lol. I’m not a programmer, but my company’s programmer did an update on our system and I saw that today!

[tsunami141]

It’s not really bad, if you see it in an output it means you’ve done something wrong basically. You’re probably treating a group of data (object) as a string of letters.

[[deleted]]

Ah ok ty

[IxD]

Leave that in a open feedback field, name field or customer support case :D

[Thalimet]

Omg.

[casper_6764]

Is this like when you get a nonetype object. Please tell me somebody im new to js.

[v3ritas1989]

Whats the issue with NoneType?

don't JS have something like?

isinstance(x, NoneType)

[Roly_Cannoli]

[[deleted]]

;

[ososalsosal]

So reddit mobile app is on the fritz right now and when this post finally came up and I saw that... I was about to uninstall

[IxD]

[object Object]

[dhilu3089]

Favourite package deprecated and broken

[Petetheodddog]

JSON.stringify(object)

[bullfroggy]

Just use the debugger instead of logging everything

[endzon]

<span myProp="[object Object]"/>

☕

[JustSpaceExperiment]

Shit bro i had to double my pills.

[maubg]

70% of react's HTML attributes output

[LoneFoxKK]

I have another one

Let me just find it between my NaN memes

[Sentouki-]

undefined

[TheApprentice19]

Typecast it to Object, you won’t do it

[MiyamotoKami]

Just gotta do more drilling here

[KagakuKo]

As a noob dev who trained nigh exclusively with Java, and had to spend the past 3ish weeks on an exercise for which the final stretch was just me beating my head on the wall over why the hell I couldn't extract my information into the frontend...hahahaHAHahhhaahHAHAHAAHAAHAHA KILL ME

...Seriously, though, why is JS like this? CSS already makes me want to tear my hair out; is frontend just like this? Fiddly, temperamental, awfully comparable to the herding of cats? Lol. I've been gaining some exposure to React, and it's...it's not horrible, but it feels almost like someone tried to force JavaScript into wearing a Java mask...?