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Serializing and Parsing JSON

Explore how to use JavaScript's JSON object to serialize data into JSON strings with stringify() and convert JSON strings back into objects with parse(). Understand optional arguments for customization and how to tailor serialization with toJSON() methods. This lesson helps you effectively manage data exchange in web applications.

When transferring data from one component to another in a distributed system, JSON is a perfect format and fits JavaScript as well.


The fifth edition of the ECMAScript specification formalized the serialization (converting an object to a string) and parsing of JSON into a native global object, not surprisingly named JSON.


This object is very simple for it has only two methods, stringify() and parse(). ...