Sometimes, especially when you’re debugging or planning out your component layouts, it can be useful to just write out the entire object as JSON so you can see just what you’re dealing with. You can do this in Chrome’s console usually with good results, but sometimes it would be easier to see it in the layout itself.
{{myThing}}
If you simply try to use interpolation, the object will be displayed as [object Object]. Not very helpful.
{{myThing | json}}
By using the built-in json pipe, Angular will display the JSON formatted value for you, which is a lot more helpful!