Align keys/values in objects?

[mcmire]

I just stumbled upon a Node library called string.ify that looks fairly interesting. It aims to format objects such that keys and values are aligned as much as possible. So it turns something like this:

{
  obj: [
    {
      someLongPropertyName: 1,
      propertyName: 2,
      anotherProp: 4,
      moreProps: 5
    },
    {
      propertyName: {
        someVeryLongPropertyName: true,
        qux: 6,
        zap: "lol"
      }
    }
  ]
}

into this:

{ obj: [ { someLongPropertyName: 1,
                   propertyName: 2,
                    anotherProp: 4,
                      moreProps: 5  },
         { propertyName: { someVeryLongPropertyName:  true,
                                                qux:  6,
                                                zap: "lol"  } } ] }

This looks highly unconventional, and requires a wide terminal width / screen to view properly. However, it makes scanning a giant data structure very easy:

It might be worth it to experiment with how this would look in a diff.