More commonly referred to as JavaScript Object Notation, JSON is a means of presenting information on the internet and exchanging data between web applications and client applications. For instance, a web application can interact with the user through a website, and any information that is exchanged between the website and the webserver moves to the server in the form of JSON. JSON makes the information take on the form of an array containing all the information and metadata related to the information being exchanged on the server.
The web server receives the information in the form of a JSON object and presents it on the web application in HTML objects. This is a simple means of representing information on web applications and why modern web applications are increasingly taking up the standard to transfer information from the client to the servers. The benefits of JSON include the fact that it is relatively lightweight and easy to use. It also takes less space on the browser cache and can be used very efficiently on a modern web browser.
As a matter of fact, modern web browsers have been equipped with an ability to translate JSON and present information in this format, which is useful for web applications that need to present information much more easily on the web application and still provide an elegant means of communicating with the server and the user of the application.
The benefit of using JSON for data representation on a web application is the fact that it is stateless and will not take much processing to translate into web pages or portions of the web page on which the web application is presented. As such, the protocol makes for lightweight web applications that still pack in a lot of utility that the user of the application can take advantage of. The designers and developers of modern web applications also prefer JSON for representing information on the web application.
It is easy to use, and integrating it with an application is much easy and effortless. It is also effortless to connect information represented in the JSON format to modern NoSQL databases. For this reason, the users of these modern web applications will get to store information much more easily as JSON can also be used to send information directly to the database.
As such, someone entering information into the web application such as paragraphs of a report and titles, will have the same information in the database as a bunch of JSON documents, which form the basis of the information presented on NoSQL databases that are increasingly used for modern systems and processing information. The modern system’s users can also present data that relates to the users more easily using this protocol, so it has been widely adopted for modern systems for its ease of use and elegance, and versatility.
