diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2835a12..0840c1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ If only a path to the file is provided, the default export is returned if any.
 You can access any named exports:
 ```bash
 esm myModule:user_config
-> { "some": "json" }
+> { some: 'json' }
 ```
 
 ### Use exported functions
@@ -143,6 +143,26 @@ import { myAwesomeFunction3 } from 'myLib'
 myAwesomeFunction3({ 0: "first", 3: "forth", foo: true })
 ```
 
+### Choose the type of result rendered
+As default esm-cli uses `console.log` to render the resulting object to output.
+It's great to get primitives correctly rendered like strings without `"`.  
+But you may sometimes need to get a JSON string representation of object, like
+when working with stings quoted ans escaped, or to get a complete JSON object.  
+To do so, you can use the commandline switch `=json` that can be placed in any order and is not given to the module as param:  
+```
+> esm myLib
+> Hello world!
+
+> esm myLib =json
+> "Hello world!"
+
+esm myModule:user_config
+> { some: 'json' }
+
+> esm myModule:user_config =json
+> {"some":"json"}
+```
+
 ## Usage with managers
 
 ### forever
diff --git a/bin/esm-cli.js b/bin/esm-cli.js
index 5766cca..21c91be 100755
--- a/bin/esm-cli.js
+++ b/bin/esm-cli.js
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
 const { resolve } = require('path')
+const switches = { json: false }, switchReg = /^=/
 let params = process.argv.slice(2)
+params = params.map( p=> switchReg.test(p) ? (switches[p.slice(1)] = true, null) : p )
+				.filter( o=>o )
 
 const moduleStr = params.shift()
 const [ esmodule, exported ] = (moduleStr || '').split(':')
@@ -32,6 +35,11 @@ let returned =
         typeof toCall == 'function'
                 ? toCall( args )
                 : toCall
+
+const render = obj=> switches.json
+					 ? process.stdout.write( obj&& JSON.stringify(obj,null,'\t') || '' )
+					 : console.log( obj || '' )
+
 //console.log( 'type' , typeof returned, returned instanceof Promise )
 returned instanceof Promise
         ? returned.then( ret=> console.log(ret||''), e=>console.error(e) )
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5e59099..facb4cd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "esm-cli",
-  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
   "description": "ECMAScript modules launcher",
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=6"