JSON

Why?

• Web needed common convention and language for communicating data

What?

• JavaScript Object Notion or JSON

• A format for structuring data as a JavaScript object

• Portable plain text file like markdown

How?

• Made up of _key _and value pairs

• key and value separated by colons :

• key-value pairs are separate by commas ,

• Each object in curly braces {}

• keys and values must be written in double quotes

Example

JSON Example

Reference

What is JSON? - REST Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.comLinkedIn