可以使用console.debug(object)来实现这一点再简单不过了。如果你以此为生，这个技巧将为你每年节省数百个小时

如果你正在寻找PHP函数转换成JS，有一个小网站:http://phpjs.org。 在那里，你可以用JS可靠地编写大部分PHP函数。对于var_dump尝试:http://phpjs.org/functions/var_dump/(确保检查顶部评论，这取决于“echo”，也可以从同一站点下载)

为了从问题标题的上下文中回答这个问题，这里有一个函数，它的功能类似于PHP var_dump。它每次调用只转储一个变量，但它指出数据类型以及值，并遍历数组和对象[即使它们是对象的数组，反之亦然]。我相信这是可以改进的。我更喜欢PHP。

/**
 * Does a PHP var_dump'ish behavior.  It only dumps one variable per call.  The
 * first parameter is the variable, and the second parameter is an optional
 * name.  This can be the variable name [makes it easier to distinguish between
 * numerious calls to this function], but any string value can be passed.
 * 
 * @param mixed var_value - the variable to be dumped
 * @param string var_name - ideally the name of the variable, which will be used 
 *       to label the dump.  If this argumment is omitted, then the dump will
 *       display without a label.
 * @param boolean - annonymous third parameter. 
 *       On TRUE publishes the result to the DOM document body.
 *       On FALSE a string is returned.
 *       Default is TRUE.
 * @returns string|inserts Dom Object in the BODY element.
 */
function my_dump (var_value, var_name)
{
    // Check for a third argument and if one exists, capture it's value, else
    // default to TRUE.  When the third argument is true, this function
    // publishes the result to the document body, else, it outputs a string.
    // The third argument is intend for use by recursive calls within this
    // function, but there is no reason why it couldn't be used in other ways.
    var is_publish_to_body = typeof arguments[2] === 'undefined' ? true:arguments[2];

    // Check for a fourth argument and if one exists, add three to it and
    // use it to indent the out block by that many characters.  This argument is
    // not intended to be used by any other than the recursive call.
    var indent_by = typeof arguments[3] === 'undefined' ? 0:arguments[3]+3;

    var do_boolean = function (v)
    {
        return 'Boolean(1) '+(v?'TRUE':'FALSE');
    };

    var do_number = function(v)
    {
        var num_digits = (''+v).length;
        return 'Number('+num_digits+') '+v;
    };

    var do_string = function(v)
    {
        var num_chars = v.length;
        return 'String('+num_chars+') "'+v+'"';
    };

    var do_object = function(v)
    {
        if (v === null)
        {
            return "NULL(0)";
        }

        var out = '';
        var num_elem = 0;
        var indent = '';

        if (v instanceof Array)
        {
            num_elem = v.length;
            for (var d=0; d<indent_by; ++d)
            {
                indent += ' ';
            }
            out = "Array("+num_elem+") \n"+(indent.length === 0?'':'|'+indent+'')+"(";
            for (var i=0; i<num_elem; ++i)
            {
                out += "\n"+(indent.length === 0?'':'|'+indent)+"|   ["+i+"] = "+my_dump(v[i],'',false,indent_by);
            }
            out += "\n"+(indent.length === 0?'':'|'+indent+'')+")";
            return out;
        }
        else if (v instanceof Object)
        {
            for (var d=0; d<indent_by; ++d)
            {
                indent += ' ';
            }
            out = "Object \n"+(indent.length === 0?'':'|'+indent+'')+"(";
            for (var p in v)
            {
                out += "\n"+(indent.length === 0?'':'|'+indent)+"|   ["+p+"] = "+my_dump(v[p],'',false,indent_by);
            }
            out += "\n"+(indent.length === 0?'':'|'+indent+'')+")";
            return out;
        }
        else
        {
            return 'Unknown Object Type!';
        }
    };

    // Makes it easier, later on, to switch behaviors based on existance or
    // absence of a var_name parameter.  By converting 'undefined' to 'empty 
    // string', the length greater than zero test can be applied in all cases.
    var_name = typeof var_name === 'undefined' ? '':var_name;
    var out = '';
    var v_name = '';
    switch (typeof var_value)
    {
        case "boolean":
            v_name = var_name.length > 0 ? var_name + ' = ':''; // Turns labeling on if var_name present, else no label
            out += v_name + do_boolean(var_value);
            break;
        case "number":
            v_name = var_name.length > 0 ? var_name + ' = ':'';
            out += v_name + do_number(var_value);
            break;
        case "string":
            v_name = var_name.length > 0 ? var_name + ' = ':'';
            out += v_name + do_string(var_value);
            break;
        case "object":
            v_name = var_name.length > 0 ? var_name + ' => ':'';
            out += v_name + do_object(var_value);
            break;
        case "function":
            v_name = var_name.length > 0 ? var_name + ' = ':'';
            out += v_name + "Function";
            break;
        case "undefined":
            v_name = var_name.length > 0 ? var_name + ' = ':'';
            out += v_name + "Undefined";
            break;
        default:
            out += v_name + ' is unknown type!';
    }

    // Using indent_by to filter out recursive calls, so this only happens on the 
    // primary call [i.e. at the end of the algorithm]
    if (is_publish_to_body  &&  indent_by === 0)
    {
        var div_dump = document.getElementById('div_dump');
        if (!div_dump)
        {
            div_dump = document.createElement('div');
            div_dump.id = 'div_dump';

            var style_dump = document.getElementsByTagName("style")[0];
            if (!style_dump)
            {
                var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
                style_dump = document.createElement("style");
                head.appendChild(style_dump);
            }
            // Thank you Tim Down [http://stackoverflow.com/users/96100/tim-down] 
            // for the following addRule function
            var addRule;
            if (typeof document.styleSheets != "undefined" && document.styleSheets) {
                addRule = function(selector, rule) {
                    var styleSheets = document.styleSheets, styleSheet;
                    if (styleSheets && styleSheets.length) {
                        styleSheet = styleSheets[styleSheets.length - 1];
                        if (styleSheet.addRule) {
                            styleSheet.addRule(selector, rule)
                        } else if (typeof styleSheet.cssText == "string") {
                            styleSheet.cssText = selector + " {" + rule + "}";
                        } else if (styleSheet.insertRule && styleSheet.cssRules) {
                            styleSheet.insertRule(selector + " {" + rule + "}", styleSheet.cssRules.length);
                        }
                    }
                };
            } else {
                addRule = function(selector, rule, el, doc) {
                    el.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(selector + " {" + rule + "}"));
                };
            }

            // Ensure the dump text will be visible under all conditions [i.e. always
            // black text against a white background].
            addRule('#div_dump', 'background-color:white', style_dump, document);
            addRule('#div_dump', 'color:black', style_dump, document);
            addRule('#div_dump', 'padding:15px', style_dump, document);

            style_dump = null;
        }

        var pre_dump = document.getElementById('pre_dump');
        if (!pre_dump)
        {
            pre_dump = document.createElement('pre');
            pre_dump.id = 'pre_dump';
            pre_dump.innerHTML = out+"\n";
            div_dump.appendChild(pre_dump);
            document.body.appendChild(div_dump);
        }  
        else
        {
            pre_dump.innerHTML += out+"\n";
        }
    }
    else
    {
        return out;
    }
}

我只是想添加一些关于console.log的相对重要的东西

如果您正在调试大型变量(如大型音频或视频数据缓冲区)。当你打印console.log(big_variable)时，控制台只会显示其中的一小部分。(这似乎有点明显)。

然而，如果变量处于循环中，并且这个变量不断变化，如果你曾经“将它复制到剪贴板中”，浏览器会做的是再次请求该变量(并且在你复制的时候可能已经改变了)。

我来告诉你我的故事。我正在编写一个处理大块音频数据的应用程序，使用大小为8192的float32数组。如果缓冲区具有某些特征，我将使用console.log()打印变量，然后获取该变量进行测试并摆弄它(甚至将其用于模拟，以便进行自动化测试)

然而，结果永远不会成立。麦克风会捕捉音频数据，存储在这个上。audioBuffer变量和整个事情将工作，但当我从console.log复制那个确切的变量时，我可以把它作为一个模拟来运行一些自动化测试，行为将发生巨大变化。

我花了一段时间才弄清楚这一点，显然，每当我在调试器中“复制”或“将变量设置为全局”时，而不是复制console.log中显示的变量，jsvm会要求this。audioBuffer。由于变量是在循环中使用的，麦克风仍然会录音，我将得到一个完全不同的声音数组，而不是我正在听的声音，并认为音频缓冲区是放在第一位的。

如果您正在处理大型复杂数据结构，如音频或视频文件，图像文件……当你在chrome /firefox / edge控制台读取这些值时，这些值可能会发生变化，请确保你不是console.log(变量)，而是console.log(JSON.stringify(变量))。这会为你节省大量的时间

基于之前在这篇文章中发现的函数。 增加递归模式和缩进。

function dump(v, s) {
  s = s || 1;
  var t = '';
  switch (typeof v) {
    case "object":
      t += "\n";
      for (var i in v) {
        t += Array(s).join(" ")+i+": ";
        t += dump(v[i], s+3);
      }
      break;
    default: //number, string, boolean, null, undefined 
      t += v+" ("+typeof v+")\n";
      break;
  }
  return t;
}

例子

var a = {
  b: 1,
  c: {
    d:1,
    e:2,
    d:3,
    c: {
      d:1,
      e:2,
      d:3
    }
  }
};

var d = dump(a);
console.log(d);
document.getElementById("#dump").innerHTML = "<pre>" + d + "</pre>";

结果

b: 1 (number)
c: 
   d: 3 (number)
   e: 2 (number)
   c: 
      d: 3 (number)
      e: 2 (number)

我用了第一个答案，但我觉得里面少了一个递归。

结果是:

function dump(obj) {
    var out = '';
    for (var i in obj) {
        if(typeof obj[i] === 'object'){
            dump(obj[i]);
        }else{
            out += i + ": " + obj[i] + "\n";
        }
    }

    var pre = document.createElement('pre');
    pre.innerHTML = out;
    document.body.appendChild(pre);
}