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Best way to Inspect JSON in Chrome DevTools

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to inspect the JSON data in developer tools? If so, you might click through properties to expand them and see what is inside. However, with a nested JSON it could take some clicks to get to what you are looking for. What if there is a better way? Well, there is :)

Did you know you could recursively expand JSON objects in Chrome DevTools?

You can expand a JSON object recursively in chrome developer tools by either right clicking on the object and choosing the expand recursively option from the context menu or using a keyboard shortcut for the same, which is ALT + Click on Windows and Command + Click on Mac.

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