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Process JSON with language tools and libraries - JavaScript Tutorial
From the course: JSON Essential Training
Process JSON with language tools and libraries
- [Instructor] JSON data is generally shared as a string of characters, but JSON is useful as a notation because it can describe a structure, either an object or an array. So how does a programming language work with a JSON string, and how does it create a JSON string from an object or array? Programming languages need to convert JSON into a structure to use the data, and they need to convert structures from the language into JSON in order to share the data. You may see the terms serialize and deserialize used in reference to working with JSON. Serializing JSON means turning a structure into a JSON string, while deserializing is the reverse, turning a JSON string into a structure that a programming language can work with. Remember that even though JSON is based on the object notation used in JavaScript, JSON can be used across languages and platforms. Some languages like JavaScript and Python include utilities right in…
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