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What is JSON?

JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON for short.

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Written by Xano Support
Updated over 11 months ago

JSON lightweight format for storing and transporting data and is often used when data is sent from a server to a web page. We consider JSON to be "self-describing" and easy to understand! -W3 Schools
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Inside Xano, we use JSON data as our main way for transporting, manipulating, and returning data.

JSON starts and ends with curly brackets. A set of curly brackets is called an object.
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Inside the curly brackets we add "keys", which represent the name of the property or attribute of this particular object. Each key then has a "value" added to it. We call these key-value pairs.

Objects and key-value pairs are then separated by a comma.

{
"first_name" : "Cam",
"role":"CS Manager"
//content inside is structured with keys & values, which we call 'key-value pairs'
}
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