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JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By : Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa
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JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By: Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa

Overview of this book

JSON is an established and standard format used to exchange data. This book shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development through examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new perspective on providing solutions for your applications and handling their complexities. After establishing a strong basic foundation with JSON, you'll learn to build frontend apps by creating a carousel. Next, you'll learn to implement JSON with Angular 5, Node.js, template embedding, and composer.json in PHP. This book will also help you implement Hapi.js (known for its JSON-configurable architecture) for server-side scripting. You'll learn to implement JSON for real-time apps using Kafka, as well as how to implement JSON for a task runner, and for MongoDB BSON storage. The book ends with some case studies on JSON formats to help you sharpen your creativity by exploring futuristic JSON implementations. By the end of the book, you'll be up and running with all the essential features of JSON and JavaScript and able to build fast, scalable, and efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


The configurable server using a JavaScript object is truly fascinating and so speedy to work with. Maybe, at the start, it takes little time to set up the whole configurable objects but once sorted, it provides great flexibility to reuse the snippets as well as maintaining the code. It seems like the hapi server is prepared for scalability from the start. Moreover, as we saw, we don't need to handle all the data response from the server or its content, just return the data to the callback handler and hapi identifies its type by itself. The development time to define content-type or find an npm package for each response type, such as HTML, JSON, or any string, is reduced to a great extent.

Lastly, we saw the debugging process using the POSTMAN client and its usage. Creating a whole hapi server system makes extensive use of JSON itself and it is one of the important learning steps for us in the application of JSON at the server side. Moving on to the next chapter, we are going to explore...