Text Processing with JavaScript

Recipe 12

Displaying Tabular Data in Console with console.table()

Task

Suppose you have been performing additions and subtractions on an array, but you are encountering some problems. You want to inspect the contents of the array at a particular line in your script so you can pinpoint the problem.

You need a way to quickly print the array’s content to the console.

Solution

Use the console.table() method:

part_1/displaying_tabular_data/displaying_tabular_data_ex1.js

const data = [
  {quarter: "Q1 FY22", revenue: 45962, netIncome: 20820, eps: 2.71},
  {quarter: "Q2 FY22", revenue: 44845, netIncome: 20610, eps: 2.71},
  {quarter: "Q3 FY22", revenue: 46151, netIncome: 16027, eps: 2.03},
  {quarter: "Q4 FY22", revenue: 46822, netIncome: 16244, ...