JSON

Basic

Similar to JavaScript plain objects

{
	"name": "Fluffy",
	"weight": 25,
	"prefersIndoor": true
}

Child (Nested) Objects

We can nest objects (children) as much as we need to.

Here we have a child object "pet".

{
	"address": "100 Oak Street",
	"pet": {
		"name": "Fluffy",
		"weight": 25,
		"prefersIndoor": true
	},
	"phone": "123 123-1234",
}

Collections

And we can have collections of objects.

Here we have a collection "pets" of two objects"

{
	"address": "100 Oak Street",
	"pets": [
		{
		"name": "Fluffy",
		"weight": 25,
		"prefersIndoor": true
		},
		{
		"name": "Muffy",
		"weight": 15,
		"prefersIndoor": false
		}
	],
	"phone": "123 123-1234",
}

stringify

Convert an object "myObject" into a JSON string.

We are encoding/deflating the real object into a string.

const jsonString = JSON.stringify(myObject);

parse

Convert a a JSON string into an object "myObject".

We are decoding/inflating the string into a real object.

const myObject = JSON.parse(jsonString);