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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788624701
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with JSON 2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. AJAX Requests with JSON 4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests 5. Debugging JSON 6. Building the Carousel Application 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON 8. Introduction to hapi.js 9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB 10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON 11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data 12. Case Studies in JSON 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Validating JSON

Similar to our debugging resources, there are a lot of popular web tools that help us validate JSON that were building. JSONLint is one of the most popular web tools that are available for validate our JSON feeds.

To work with JSONLint, please visit https://jsonlint.com/.

JSONLint has a very straightforward interface that allows the user to paste the JSON they want to validate, and returns either a success message or an error message based on the JSON feed that we paste. Let us begin by validating a bad piece of JSON to see the error message returned, and then let us fix it to view the success message.

For this example, I will copy the students feed from the previous example, and add a trailing comma at the end of the second element:

Notice that we have added a trailing comma to the last item in our JSON object, and the best part about JSONLint is the descriptive...

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