The building blocks discussed in this book almost all provide ways of sharing functionality across apps and often across platforms, as is the case with Facebook, Amazon Web Services, and reactive programming. This part of the book is different because it focuses on components and building blocks that let you share data across apps and often across platforms.
This chapter will focus on the specifics of JSON, which is one of the most widely used techniques for sharing data across apps and platforms.
Identifying Data That Needs to Be Shared
Apps contain data as ...