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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By : Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie
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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

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By: Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie

Overview of this book

If you're writing applications that move structured data from one place to another, this book is for you. This is especially true if you've been using XML to do the job because it's entirely possible that you could do much of the same work with less code and less data overhead in JSON. While the book's chapters make some distinction between the client and server sides of an application, it doesn't matter if you're a frontend, backend, or full-stack developer. The principles behind using JSON apply to both the client and the server, and in fact, developers who understand both sides of the equation generally craft the best applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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What you need for this book

Unlike many other technical books, this one focuses on a wide variety of supporting technologies in its examples. I don't expect that you'll have experience or the tools to try every example in this book, especially right away. However, it's helpful to have a few things set out.

You should have some programming experience, preferably in JavaScript. Unless a recipe is targeted at a specific programming language such as C#, the recipes in this book are written in JavaScript. I do this for two reasons. Firstly because the "J" in JSON stands for JavaScript (even though it's widely applicable to other languages), and, in this day and age, every programmer should have at least a nodding familiarity of JavaScript.

As far as software environments go, to begin with, you should have access to a good web browser such as Chrome or a recent version of Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. You can use the JavaScript runtime in any of these browsers to experiment with JSON and get started.

Secondly, a lot of the client-server examples feature Node.js. I picked Node.js for server-side example programming because it's also JavaScript, meaning that you don't have to jump through different language syntaxes as you move between the client and server. Node.js runs well on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, too, so you shouldn't have a problem setting it up.

If you're interested in using JSON with databases, CouchDB or MongoDB are your best choices and I discuss both of them in this book. Which one you choose is really a matter of your domain and personal preference. I've been using MongoDB for 5 years on various projects but have recently taken a liking to some of CouchDB's features and its integrated support for RESTful services.

Finally, if you're a Microsoft developer, you may want to take special note of the C# examples that use Newtonsoft's Json.NET throughout this book. Json.NET is what JSON in C# ought to be, and it's definitely worth your attention.

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