

The acronym originated at State Software, a company co-founded by Douglas Crockford and others in March 2013. He and Chip Morningstar sent the first JSON message in April 2001. js) file, even though it makes no changes to a web page on its own.ĭouglas Crockford originally specified the JSON format in the early 2000s. Any valid JSON file is a valid JavaScript (. It was derived from JavaScript, but many modern programming languages include code to generate and parse JSON-format data.

JSON is a language-independent data format. It is a common data format with diverse uses in electronic data interchange, including that of web applications with servers. JSON ( JavaScript Object Notation, pronounced / ˈ dʒ eɪ s ən/ also / ˈ dʒ eɪ ˌ s ɒ n/) is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values).
