Book description
If you fancy a less verbose data format than CSV or XML, then JSON could be for you. This tutorial will teach you about using JSON with JavaScript for effective local storage or Internet transfers.
- Deploy JSON across various domains
- Facilitate metadata storage with JSON
- Build a practical data-driven web application with JSON
In Detail
The exchange of data over the Internet has been carried out since its inception. Delimiter-separated lists such as CSV and tag-separated languages such as XML are very popular, yet they are considered to be verbose by a section of developers. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text-based code to create objects to transfer data over the Internet. It is a data exchange format that is human-readable (like XML, but without the markup around your actual payload) and its syntax is a subset of the JavaScript language that was standardized in 1999.
JavaScript and JSON Essentials is a step-by-step guide that will introduce you to JSON and help you understand how the lightweight JSON data format can be used in different ways either to store data locally or to transfer data over the Internet. This book will teach you how to use JSON effectively with JavaScript.
This book begins with a brief refresher course on JavaScript before taking you through how JSON data can be transferred via synchronous, asynchronous, and cross-domain asynchronous HTTP calls. JSON is not just about data transfer; this book throws light on the alternate implementations of JSON as well.
You will learn the data types that JavaScript uses and how those data types can be used in JSON. You will go through the concepts of how to create, update, parse, and delete a JSON object. You will also look at the different techniques of loading a JSON file onto a web page, how to use jQuery to traverse through an object, and how to perform access operations. You will also go over a few resources that will make debugging JSON quick and easy.
Table of contents
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JavaScript and JSON Essentials
- Table of Contents
- JavaScript and JSON Essentials
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. JavaScript Basics
- 2. Getting Started with JSON
- 3. Working with Real-time JSON
- 4. AJAX Calls with JSON Data
- 5. Cross-domain Asynchronous Requests
- 6. Building the Carousel Application
- 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON
- 8. Debugging JSON
- Index
Product information
- Title: JavaScript and JSON Essentials
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781783286034
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