🔧 Your console.log Is Lying to You

Open your browser DevTools and run this:



const user = { name: "Bob" }
console.log(user)
user.name = "Alice"






You would expect the log to show { name: "Bob" }, the value at the time of the console.log call. The collapsed line is what you expect:



▶ Object { name: "Bob" }






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