javascript-and-json

Question 1

What is JSON?

Answer 1

A text-based data format for representing data based on JavaScript object syntax

Question 2

What are serialization and deserialization?

Answer 2

Serialization is converting an object into a stream of bytes to be transferred or stored.
Desterilization is converting a stream of bytes from storage or network to an object with same state

Question 3

Why are serialization and deserialization useful?

Answer 3

useful in transferring/storing data to a database, file or to memory

Question 4

How do you serialize a data structure into a JSON string using JavaScript?

Answer 4

the JSON.stringify method

Question 5

How do you deserialize a JSON string into a data structure using JavaScript?

Answer 5

the JSON.parse method