Summary

JSON is quickly becoming the most popular data interchange format on the Internet, but it is not limited to data exchange. We can also use JSON to store metadata for dependency managers, package managers, configuration managers, and schema data stores. We were introduced to YAML, which is considered as an alternative to JSON. In the next chapter, we will look at the different resources that we can use to debug, validate, and format JSON.

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