A Developer's Guide To Marshaling Data With JSON
The News Stack, Saturday, January 17th, 2026
Tips for using JSON for data marshaling, including practical examples, parsing and trying tools like FracturedJson for readability.
While code and data interplay with each other to form running programs, we still tend to concern ourselves more with how code is presented than how data is presented. While masses of streaming data can often move unseen and is truly meaningless, JavaScript Object Notation (aka JSON) was specifically designed as a standard text-based format for representing small amounts of human-readable structured data.