Can someone tell me practical reasons why i should use JSON?

Answer 1

JSON along with XML are the most popular and frequently used standards of formatting datasets, translatable to any modern programming language. Both are easily comprehensible, platform- and OS-independent and capable.

Answer 2

It's often used when data to sent from a server to a web page. JSON syntax is derived from JavaScript  is a format for storing and transporting data.

Answer 3

If you develop a web services chances are that you prefer to use json to encode the output. Today is practically a standard.
If you use a nosql database, like mongodb, you can use json by the same reason

Answer 4

JSON is easy to learn because the main part is:
"attribute":"value"
and its very usefull

Answer 5

Due to the syntax XML is much larger then JSON.
This is why JSON is the preference in web data transfer.

Programming languages can recognise JSON data types easily.

Answer 6

Database can be store in Json format. Rest Api transport data also in Json format too.

Javscript objects are closely similar to JSON format.

Example of a dataset in JSON data:
{
"students": [
{
"id": "1",
"name": "Hiro Otawa",
"age": "27"
},
{
"id": "2",
"name": "Y.T"',
"age": "16"
}
]
}

Which can be converted into Javascript object using data = JSON.parse(json)

data = {
students: [
{
id: 1,
name: 'Hiro Otawa',
age: 27
},
{
id: 2,
name: 'Y.T.',
age: 16
}
]
}

In turn, Javascript can convert its objects to dataset in JSON for database or data transportation using json = JSON.stringify(data); function

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Answer 7

If we want to serialize a table into JSON and XML, assuming equal number of records, which format in your opinion would be larger (in bytes) between the two?. And which of them supports field definition & description (data type, length etc.)?.

Answer 8

I use json for a config file for my open source discord bot