# JSON

Concept · [Technical basics](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/technical)

Also called: JavaScript Object Notation, JSON file, json data, jason

JavaScript Object Notation. A plain-text format for structured data, made of named fields and lists. Most [APIs](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/api) send and receive data as JSON.

**For example:** A weather [API](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/api) answers with JSON such as {"city": "Tulsa", "[temperature](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/temperature)": 72}.

## Connects to (4)

- [API](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/api): Application programming interface.
- [REST API](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/rest-api): A common style of API where each kind of data lives at its own web address and software reads or changes it with standard web requests…
- [JSONC](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/jsonc): JSON with comments.
- [Data model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-model): The plan for what information an app stores and how the pieces relate, such as customers, orders and products and which belongs to which.

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