JSON is an established standard format used to exchange data. This book shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development using various examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new perspective on providing solutions to your applications and handling complexity.
If you're a web developer with a basic understanding of JavaScript or PHP development and wish to write JSON data and integrate it with RESTful APIs to create faster and scalable applications, this book is for you.
Chapter 1, Getting Started with JSON, introduces the audience to JSON, discusses the history of JSON along with how it works and stores itself in memory. The chapter also outlines the popular programming languages that support JSON and ends by writing a basic program with different data types in JSON.
Chapter 2, The JSON Structures, spices up the normal implementation of JSON with a little complexity consisting of multiple datatypes, multiple objects, and multidimensional data.
Chapter 3, AJAX Requests with JSON, discusses AJAX requests with JSON data, passing JSON over HTTP requests, asynchronicity and techniques to handle it.
Chapter 4, Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests, explores the concept of making asynchronous calls across domains. Since data is being transported across domains, users will be introduced to the concept of JSON with padding, called JSONP.
Chapter 5, Debugging JSON, explains the powerful tools that are available to debug, validate, and format JSON.
Chapter 6, Building the Carousel Application, implements the idea of a Carousel application and the required setup and dependencies, such as the jQuery library and the jQuery Cycle plugin, for the application. It uses Bootstrap to maintain a basic design for the application.
Chapter 7, Alternate Implementations of JSON, discusses the non web-development implementation of JSON, such as dependency managers, metadata stores, and configuration stores.
Chapter 8, Introduction to Hapi.js, talks about implementing JSON-based configuration in a Hapi server and creating RESTful APIs with the help of the same.
Chapter 9, Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB, begins by introducing MongoDB and then, explains how JSON is used in mongoDB. Next, it reaches the central theme of performing different operations on mongoDB JSON documents.
Chapter 10, Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON, outlines the gulp.js library. Gulp is a powerful library that manages and provides tools to create tasks.
Chapter 11, JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data, familiarizes you with the usage of JSON data for real-time web applications by implementing the socket.io server and, furthermore, with Apache Kafka.
Chapter 12, Case Studies in JSON, is a case study on how JSON is enhanced for different domains, taking into consideration the various benefits it provided after implantation.
- If you are a beginner in web development, start with chapter 1, Getting Started with JSON, and go through the basics of JSON. The first five chapters are simple to understand and quick to practice. As you move forward, go on implementing the snippets that are provided in each chapter.
- Over time, ensure that all your book-related queries are solved by discussing them on forums such as StackOverflow or GitHub.
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