Learning Node.js Development

Converting a string back to an object

To convert the string back to object, we'll use the opposite of JSON.stringify, which is JSON.parse. Let's make a variable to store the result. I'll create a person variable and it will be set equal to JSON.parse, passing in as the one and only argument the string you want to parse, in this case, the person string, which we defined earlier:

var person = JSON.parse(personString);

Now, this variable takes your JSON and converts it from a string back into its original form, which could be an array or an object. In our case, it converts it back into an object, and we have the person variable as an object, as shown in the preceding code. Also, we can prove that it's an object using the typeof operator. I'll ...