How can we parse JSON using Node js

Question

How should I parse JSON using Node.js? Is there some module which will validate and parse JSON securely?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

You can simply use JSON.parse.

The definition of the JSON object is part of the ECMAScript 5 specification. node.js is built on Google Chrome's V8 engine, which adheres to ECMA standard. Therefore, node.js also has a global object JSON.

Note - JSON.parse can tie up the current thread because it is a synchronous method. So if you are planning to parse big JSON objects use a streaming json parser.