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Let's learn about Json via these 93 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the /Learn or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write and easy for machines to parse and generate. JSON is a ubiquitous standard for transmitting data between a server and web application, enabling seamless communication across different systems.

1. Import JSON To Google Sheets - 3 Best Ways To Do It

3 ways to pull JSON data into a Google Spreadsheet

2. Ruby: How to read/write JSON File

In Ruby read and write JSON file to hash can be achieved using File Handling. 

3. JSON Lines format: Why jsonl is better than a regular JSON for web scraping

Comma Separated Values (CSV) format is a common data exchange format used widely for representing sets of records with identical list of fields.

4. Effective Workarounds for SQL-Style Joins in Elasticsearch

In this blog, we explore how nested objects and parent-child relationships enable SQL-like join operations in Elasticsearch.

5. Fetch Data From a JSON File With a React & Redux App

This guide explains how to use React and Redux to fetch data from JSON files in an easy and lightweight method through a real example and well explained steps.

6. Go: Handling JSON in MySQL

7. How to Simulate a Backend REST API with json-server for CRUD Development in React

Simulate a backend REST API for React development with json-server. Set up a fake REST API to prototype and mock frontend application.

8. How to Query Deeply Nested JSON Data in PSQL

Recently I had to write a script, which should’ve changed some JSON data structure in a PSQL database. Here are some tricks I learned along the way.

9. Unlocking the Power of JSON in MySQL: Tips and Tricks

In this article, I will explain how and why you should use the JSON data type instead of TEXT.

10. 8 Tips for Solving The JSON RPC Error In Metamask

The most problem users come across is the internal JSON RPC error in Metamask. After a detailed search, I found there are numerous different solutions to it.

11. With JSONB Data in PostgreSQL, You Can Get the Best of Both Worlds

JSONB in PostgreSQL offers the best of relational and NoSQL. Here are two techniques that we use at AppLand to make JSONB data even more effective.

12. How To Extract Key or Value From Hash in Ruby on Rails

When I was recently working in one of the client projects, I had to communicate with external MariaDB server to store records from React/Rails app, that means I would get ActiveRecord hash from our app which I had to convert to pure SQL query and send it to an external server for storing.

13. How to use Recursion to Traverse JSON Objects and the Filesystem

I work primarily on application-level programs, so I tend to not use recursion very often. However, every now and then I need a function that is best solved recursively. It is important to be able to recognize when a problem is best solved recursively, and to be able to write it when the time comes.

14. Defining Types: Using allOf in Swagger JSON

Image by Devanath from Pixabay 

15. The History of JSON and the People That Created It

Douglas Crockford and Chip Morngingstar created the data exchange format that is now known as JSON.

16. 7 Kotlin Libraries Every Developer Should Know

The most common Kotlin libraries that are used for cross-platform and Android development, testing, and documentation are considered in the article.

17. 8 Most Popular Weather APIs for 2020

The climate is a hot issue and weather forecasting technology is suddenly cool. The urgent need for innovative weather and environmental conditions forecasting solutions is obvious whether you believe in climate change or not.

18. How to Encode and Decode JSON with Scala-Circe

Getting started with encoding and decoding JSON using Scala-Circe.

19. The Complete Microservice Tutorial: Introduction [Part 1]

Project Link: https://github.com/Joker666/microservice-demo/

20. Tree - AST Crushes JSON, XML, YAML, TOML, etc

XML, JSON, TOML, YAML are bad relative to Tree data format

21. Using JSON Mapping to Work with APIs of Various Image Services

Using JSON Mapping to Work with APIs of Various Image Services. This approach is applicable to any other services that are similar in type of returned results.

22. Streamlining Form Validation with JSON Schema for Front-End and Back-End

Efficiently validate forms with a single set of rules for both front-end and back-end using JSON Schema.

23. Build Data-Driven Web App Without Backend

During the last couple of decades websites' functionally has increased dramatically - from simple landing pages serving simple static ads to complex progressive web apps whose functionality close to native applications including user authorization, location tracking, bluetooth handling, and offline mode.

24. Hybrid Data Models: How To Have Your JSON Cake and Eat MariaDB Too

By adding support for JSON, MariaDB provides the ultimate schema flexibility without sacrificing transactions or data integrity.

25. Unraveling the Maze of Large JSON Files: Tips and Tools for Local JSON Parsing

Discover how a backend developer overcomes obstacles in processing large JSON log files.

26. Debugging Gson, Moshi and Jackson JSON Frameworks in Production

Parsing is a major source of production failures. Some are easy to track but some are insidious. Here's how you can debug them on the fly!

27. JSON Web Token: How To Secure Your Data With JWT

A JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a way for securely transferring information between two parties. It can be used for an authentication system. As this information is digitally signed, it can be verified and trusted.

28. Custom Log Processor Integration – Fluentd vs Vector.dev

By writing your tool, you gain more customization options, versatility, and other enhanced capabilities that can enrich your processing.

29. The Best Java Libraries that Every Developer Should Know

This article describes Java libraries like Apache Commons, Guava, Log4j2, Logback, SLF4J, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, Hamcrest, AssertJ, Jackson, Gson, JAXB, StAX

30. Enhancing JSON Files: 4 Ways to Add Comments Without Compromising Structure

Learn how to add comments to JSON files effectively, exploring methods like dedicated keys and non-standard parsers without breaking format.

31. How to Use Data Science to Find the Best Seat in the Cinema (Part I)

From the most popular seats to the most popular viewing times, we wanted to find out more about the movie trends in Singapore . So we created PopcornData — a website to get a glimpse of Singapore’s Movie trends — by scraping data, finding interesting insights, and visualizing them.

32. Excel to PDF: A New Innovative Approach to PDF Generation from Microsoft Excel

Discover the challenges of Excel to PDF conversion and see how DynamicDocs Excel PDF Add-in improves the native 'Save As PDF' functionality.

33. New Biome Release Offers Faster Linting With TypeScript-Like Precision

For the first time, a JavaScript and TypeScript linter can offer type-aware rules without relying on the TypeScript compiler.

34. Spring Boot Audit Logs: Capture Every API Action Without Writing Boilerplate Code

Build a fully automated audit logging system in Spring Boot using AOP and JPA, capturing every REST API action without manual log statements.

35. I Pivoted my Startup Into an AI Company and You Should Do the Same — Here's How

The goal of this article is to share my new perception of GPT's role in SaaS.

36. Why Are Databases Exposed as APIs?

What has changed in the software world to elevate the importance of exposing databases as APIs?

37. Writing Your First REST API: A How-to Guide

As part of my Borum Jot project, I made a Web API for all my front-end platforms to create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) data on the database. In this article, I'll discuss what exactly an API is and how I made my own Web API.

38. How To Create a Simple Autocomplete Field And Connect it With Elasticsearch

Autocomplete is a feature to predict the rest of a word a user is typing. It is an important feature to implement that can improve the user’s experience of your product.

39. How I'm Engineering a Versioned Database Storage Engine for Byte-Addressable NVM

Feel free to contribute on GitHub 💚

40. How to Use .populate() With mongoDB

How to use populate() method with mongoDB to itch data across referenced collections

41. How to Win the Velo Writing Contest: A Detailed Cheat Sheet

In order to display a non-static website - you'll need to have a data source and connect it with Velo. For example, you can create some sort of "fake API".

42. Go's New Experimental Packages: What to Know

This blog post is about Go 1.25’s new experimental encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages, which bring long-awaited improvements and fixes.

43. How to Export Your HackerNoon Stories as a PDF or JSON

The HackerNoon team is back at it with a new feature! You can now export your stories to a PDF or a JSON file.

44. So, How are Observability and Monitoring Different, Actually?

The similarities and differences between monitoring and observability and how to pair the two strategies

45. Native JSON Streaming in Symfony: How to Bypass Memory Limits and More

Handling massive JSON payloads no longer requires architectural gymnastics, batch processing scripts, or adding third-party dependencies to your composer.json.

46. An Interview with the Creator of JSON Douglas Crockford

We had a nice chat with Douglas Crockford, a well-known American computer programmer who was involved in the development of the JavaScript language.

47. Introducing Jdict Module in Python

Providing attribute access to Python dictionary entries

48. JSON in Swift: What You Need to Know

Serialize and deserialize JSON for Swift with different ways

49. A Quick Primer on Data Scraping

Suppose you want to get large amounts of information from a website as quickly as possible. How can this be done?

50. Automate Simply With Webhook

Automate anything with Webhook, a simple tool for your toolbox

51. Logging Vs. Monitoring: Best Practices for Logging [Part 2]

Logging and Monitoring… this I tell you, brother. You can't have one without the other.

52. Everything You Need to Know About Web APIs

Understanding web application programming interfaces (APIs) is important for many jobs in the tech industry. Here are the basics.

53. Back-end Data and API Prototyping with Faker.js and JSON-Server

Introduction

54. FlutBuffers in 2024: Can We Recreate Old Success? Performance Optimization Takes Center Stage!

Explore mobile app backend optimization—JSON, Protobuf, and FlatBuffers. Evolve from limited funds to high-performance solutions. DIY

55. Resolving Complex JSON in Kafka Source Using Apache SeaTunnel

Use the extension of UDF functions to parse the nested JSON data from Kafka sources.

56. Stop Parsing Nightmares: Prompting LLMs to Return Clean, Parseable JSON

Prompt engineering guide for getting LLMs to return clean, parseable JSON every time, with templates, failure modes, and production-ready patterns.

57. Approaching Cricket Analytics With Python and Indian Premier League Data

This project originated as an Independent Research Topic Investigation for the Data Science for Public Affairs class at Indiana University.

58. How Manifold Revolutionizes JSON Parsing in Java

Parsing JSON in Java (and other formats) can be as easy as in JavaScript. It can do much more while keeping the type-safety and deep IDE integration.

59. Querying Complex JSON Objects With SQL

How many times have you run into a situation where you wish you could do a SQL join without getting duplicate rows back? What if we could get a list "column" returned instead? HarperDB’s ARRAY() function enables just that. In this post we’re going to take a look at a basic example of people with addresses and phone numbers.

60. Securing Link Previews in NodeJS: A Guide using ApyHub's Link Preview API

Learn to fortify link previews in NodeJS with ApyHub's Link Preview API. Safeguard your applications from malicious content effortlessly.

61. Using Rainforest API With WordPress [A How-To Guide]

Rainforest API is an alternative to the Amazon Product API provided to Amazon Associates. If you are thiking of building shopping comparisson sites with Amazon links and you don’t have an API key, or if you want to build a lot of pages very quickly without limitation, using Rainforest API is the answer. If you are serious about earning money as an Amazon Affiliate and want to make thousands of pages, do yourself a favor and start the project off right.

62. Meet TOON, the Format Helping LLMs Shed JSON’s Extra Weight

TOON is a token-efficient alternative to JSON that makes LLM prompts cheaper, cleaner, and more accurate. Here’s how it works and when to use it.

63. New Feature in Go Makes it Easier to Iterate, Manipulate JSON Data

What if you could loop through your JSON data, grab the path of each item, and decide exactly what to do with it on the fly?

64. Building with Hypermedia: HTMX's Purity and Lightview's Flexibility.

Explore the differences between HTMX and Lightview hypermedia. Learn how to choose between pure HDA architecture and Lightview’s multiple paradigms.

65. Creating Developer-Friendly Data Services with Apache Cassandra

Using data APIs and advanced data modeling will make it far easier for JSON-oriented developers to connect to Apache Cassandra.

66. Five Important Tips For Working With JWTs

Nowadays, JSON Web Tokens are the most common way of proving identity information to APIs. The concepts behind JWTs are also quite easy to understand, and it takes only a couple of minutes to have the most basic authentication running.

67. The End of Config Hell in Python, Thanks to Pydantic v2

Stop config bugs before prod: use Pydantic v2 strict models, sane defaults, and discriminated unions to validate JSON/YAML and prevent drift.

68. A Quick Guide to JSON Web Token [JWT]

JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) for securely transmitting information between parties as JSON objects.

69. Extracting Information From Hash in Ruby on Rails

When I was recently working in one of the client project, I had to communicate with external mariadb server to store records from react/rails app, that means I would get activerecord hash from our app which I had to convert to pure sql query and send it to external server for storing.

If you have worked with sql queries previously then you must know that keys and values must be separated for insert operations like

70. What Should You Do to Trust Event Data? Part 1 – Events Catalogue

Struggling with messy event data in event-based analytics? See practical insights on organizing event definition data to make them work.

71. JSON Web Auth Using Angular 8 and NodeJS

The article is about interfacing an Angular 8 Project with a secure backend API. The Backend will be running on Node.JS. The security that will underlay the interfacing will be JSON Web Tokens.

72. Coding 101: Who is Json?

A.) Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)

73. µjson — A minimal JSON parser and transformer in Go

µjson is a minimal JSON parser and transformer that works on unstructured (and trusted) JSON. It works by parsing input and calling the given callback function when encountering each item.

74. When Json Serializations Go Horribly Wrong

From DateTime serialization issues, to the fact that serializing DateTime.MinValue causes a crash, because UTC time is less than minimal allowed DateTime value.

75. Code Smell 303 - How to Prevent Breaking Existing Clients When You Make Changes

You should version your APIs to prevent breaking existing clients when you make changes

76. Breaking Down MSON Template Queries

Template Queries are dynamic templates constructed with MongoDB-style operators, which allow you to customize MSON components with less code.

77. Shrink Your Lottie Animations by 80% with the .lottie Format

Instead of a raw JSON file, a .lottie animation is a zipped archive that shrinks file size by 70-80% compared to plain JSON.

78. Building CLI Tools with Go (Golang): A JSON File Formatter

79. This Tool Unlocks Unlimited Free Data for Testing, Prototyping, and Demos

Bloomer mock tool can generate random mock customised data for free. No limit on number of records that can be generated.

80. The HTML Partial Trap: Why HTMX is Only Half the Story

Is HTMX's dogmatic insistence on HTML holding it back? Discover JSON partials as the future of cross-platform UI and secure AI-generated hypermedia interfaces.

81. How Mongoose Will Bring JSON-Oriented Developers to Apache Cassandra

A new partnership between the open source projects Stargate and Mongoose will create a fully idiomatic experience for JavaScript developers on Cassandra.

82. Improve Network API Performance For Your Apps

Network APIs are everywhere in the modern world. If the data is the lifeblood of modern tech, then APIs are essentially vessels that carry it around distributed

83. JSON File Comparison With Jackson

Discover methods and tools to effectively compare JSON files, from command-line tools to online utilities and custom scripts.

84. How To Query JSON in Couchbase via Collections and Scopes

This week I’m attending the 3-day Couchbase Connect event and will be reporting on some of the topics that I find most interesting.

85. Document Databases vs Relational Databases (Podcast Transcript)

Amy Tom talks to Eric Bishard and Arun Vijayaraghavan about the differences between a Document Database and a Relational Database.

86. Efficient Cloud Resource Cost Management with Infracost and Open Policy Agent in Jenkins

In your deployment phase, a question to address is the cost estimation of the resources required for deploying your application within the allocated budget.

87. What is SQL? And Where is it Used?

What is SQL? Databases use it, query APIs use it, even energetic big data dashboards use it! Where did it come from and how are developers, DBAs, and app using.

88. Exploring JSON Schema for Form Validation in Web Components

Learn how to seamlessly integrate JSON Schema validation into custom Web Components for enhanced form validation, reusability, and maintainability.

89. Introducing Yet Another JWT Debugger

Introducing a new JWT Debugger App - our way to contribute back to the developer community. The app is available on the web and as Desktop apps for Windows, Linux, and Mac. With JWT Debugger App we immediately highlight what really matters to you as a developer without any shenanigans. It is a very simple tool but we hope it will improve the developer experience.

90. Demystifying Data and Serialization Templates with JSON, YAML, and Jinja

Learn the differences between JSON, YAML, and Jinja, and how to choose the right tool for your project.

91. Mastering JavaScript: Comprehensive Error Handling Techniques

Learn advanced error handling in JavaScript with try-catch, throwing, async patterns, and real-world examples for robust applications

92. How To Do Data Mapping in Kumologica

Data mapping is a key element in integration. Most of the prominent integration tools provide different capabilities for data mapping. In this article I thought of sharing on how data mapping can be achieved in Kumologica. Kumologica uses JSONata as the base for data mapping. JSONata is a Lightweight query and transformation language for JSON data. It supports complex queries expression which can be achieved with minimal syntax and has a location path semantics of Xpath 3.1.

93. 99.99% Uptime, 5% Rage: How Synthetic Monitoring Lets You Lie to Yourself

Dashboards that show 99.99% uptime often hide the truth.