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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- devtools
Research direction
Start by locating the mobx-devtools code that formats or logs observed objects, then reproduce the (object) output shown in the issue image. Determine how nested object changes should be displayed and verify that the devtools logs provide useful object details instead of the placeholder.
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Description
Wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if we can improve this:

Logs like this basically make mobx-devtools unusable, as oftentimes what's important is seeing what changed inside the object.
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 503
- Forks
- 34
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Getting set up
This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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