Here’s what you need to know about JavaScript Object Notation. JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a format used to represent data. It was introduced in the early 2000s as part of JavaScript ...

What is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format used to exchange data between web clients and web servers. The ...

It lets you transform between string JSON and live JSON objects. (For more about JavaScript Object Notation, see InfoWorld’s primer, What is JSON?.) The JSON object is useful all the time.