title: NodeJS JSON.stringify of very long array of objects errors "invalid string length"
body: <p>I've got a very long array of objects that is about 100,000 items in size, and just before I got to write it to file, I pass the data into JSON.stringify</p>
  
  <p>I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>JSON.stringify(
       ^
  RangeError: Invalid string length
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I stringify a very large json object successfully?</p>
  
  <h1>Update:</h1>
  
  <p>since I initially had written this question, I've become more familiar with processing large amounts of data, and I prefer to use Apache Spark for this process. In Spark, it is customary to not use large JSON arrays, but rather a stream or file containing long strings of JSON, one object per line. A file would look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"name":"kristian", "favoriteSong":"enter sandman"}
  {"name":"joshua", "favoriteSong":"penny lane"}
  {"name":"susan", "favoriteSong":"all about that bass"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is good because:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>you can arbitrarily deal with files that are terabytes large, and just as easily do some logicless file splitting and turn that into a thousand smaller files, were the logic is to simply break the file at some line break number N.</li>
  <li>This is better you wont ever have the potentially horrible issue of having a corrupted data file on your hands, caused by an un-closed JSON array.</li>
  <li>a large JSON array in a file tends to not have line breaks, and thus large files are a pain to open in VIM or other editors because it tries to load the whole thing into memory, as opposed to a file with linebreaks, where it can easily load the first 10 lines or so to the screen without issue.</li>
  </ul>