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Logging data as a table in the console

I'm sure you're already familiar with console.log() to debug, but did you know that there is a similar console.table() that is great for displaying arrays and objects?

Here are some examples,

Assuming you had an array of names

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Assuming you had a person object

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Assuming you had an array of person objects

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There is also an optional columns parameter, which takes an array containing the names of columns you want to include in the output.

console.table(data)
console.table(data, columns)

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