Beginning JSON

CHAPTER 8

Data Interchange

Thus far, you have been learning how to work with JSON data that has been stringified, parsed, persisted, and retrieved—all from within the scope of a running application. However, as JSON is a data-interchange format, it is capable of being transmitted across the Internet, which offers our applications much more possibility than we have currently been allowing them.

With the use of data interchange, we can send JSON across the Internet into a database that is owned/controlled by us. The visitor cannot as easily delete data this way, as it could be with Web Storage and the HTTP cookie. Furthermore, the ability to transmit ...