More About The "JSON" Format

JSON is an acronym for "JavaScript Object Notation" and it's a standardized way of formatting text data into a machine- and human-readable format. JSON-formatted text data looks like this: { "username": "Max", "age": 32, "hobbies": ["Sports", "Cooking"], "address": { "city": "Munich", "street: "Some street 5" } } It's called "JavaScript Object Notation" because the formatting resembles the "look" and structure of objects in JavaScript code. Though, it's important to understand that you can work with JSON-formatted data in JavaScript (e.g. you can read or write a file that contains data in that format) BUT it's not JavaScript-exclusive. Instead, it's a very common data format for all kinds of use cases and it's usable in basically all programming languages. Again: The above snippet is some text (...