That response is a string too, if you want to send the response prettified, for some awkward reason, you could use something like JSON.stringify(anObject, null, 3)
It's important that you set the Content-Type header to application/json, too.
var http = require('http');
var app = http.createServer(function(req,res){
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
res.end(JSON.stringify({ a: 1 }));
});
app.listen(3000);
// > {"a":1}
Prettified:
var http = require('http');
var app = http.createServer(function(req,res){
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
res.end(JSON.stringify({ a: 1 }, null, 3));
});
app.listen(3000);
// > {
// > "a": 1
// > }
I'm not exactly sure why you want to terminate it with a newline, but you could just do JSON.stringify(...) + '\n' to achieve that.
In express you can do this by changing the options instead.
'json replacer'JSON replacer callback, null by default
'json spaces'JSON response spaces for formatting, defaults to 2 in development, 0 in production
Not actually recommended to set to 40
app.set('json spaces', 40);
Then you could just respond with some json.
res.json({ a: 1 });
It'll use the 'json spaces' configuration to prettify it.