I am relatively new to web development and web applications. I have heard about JSON but am not sure exactly what its uses are.
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I am relatively new to web development and web applications. I have heard about JSON but am not sure exactly what its uses are.
JSON is a format for encoding information returned by the server. When you call a script with AJAX/XHR (e.g. with JavaScript) the returned information can come via XML, JSON, or another format. JSON is simply a way to return that data in an object structure native to JavaScript – in a way that generally doesn’t require a lot of parsing, like XML does.