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Answer by Fouad Boukredine for Iterate through object properties

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if(Object.keys(obj).length) {
    Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => {
        console.log("\n" + key + ": " + obj[key]);
    });
}

// *** Explanation line by line ***

// Explaining the bellow line
// It checks if obj has at least one property. Here is how:
// Object.keys(obj) will return an array with all keys in obj
// If there is no keys in obj, it will return empty array = []
// Then it will get it's length, if it has at least one element,
// it's bigger than 0 which evaluates to true and the bellow 
// code will be executed.
// Else means it's length = 0 which evaluates to false
// NOTE: you can use Object.hasOwnProperty() instead of Object.keys(obj).length
if(Object.keys(obj).length) {

    // Explaining the bellow line
    // Just like in the previous line, this returns an array with
    // all keys in obj (because if code execution got here, it means 
    // obj has keys.) 
    // Then just invoke built-in javascript forEach() to loop
    // over each key in returned array and calls a call back function 
    // on each array element (key), using ES6 arrow function (=>)
    // Or you can just use a normal function ((key) { blah blah }).
    Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => {

        // The bellow line prints out all keys with their 
        // respective value in obj.
        // key comes from the returned array in Object.keys(obj)
        // obj[key] returns the value of key in obj
        console.log("\n" + key + ": " + obj[key]);
    });
}

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