This is a JSON string:
'{"name":"John", "age":30, "car":null}'
Inside the JSON string there is a JSON object literal:
{"name":"John", "age":30, "car":null}
JSON object literals are surrounded by curly braces {}.
JSON object literals contains key/value pairs.
Keys and values are separated by a colon.
Keys must be strings, and values must be a valid JSON data type:
- string
- number
- object
- array
- boolean
- null
Each key/value pair is separated by a comma.
It is a common mistake to call a JSON object literal “a JSON object”.
JSON cannot be an object. JSON is a string format.
The data is only JSON when it is in a string format. When it is converted to a JavaScript variable, it becomes a JavaScript object.