Well I guess this means that if you have a 1k+ lines of static JSON, it would be better if you consider converting it to a string and use JSON.parse instead. I

Well I guess this means that if you have a 1k+ lines of static JSON, it would be better if you consider converting it to a string and use JSON.parse instead. I'm not sure I can find a use case of such a big object declaration. Usually what you do is to get it from somewhere ( file, db - with nodejs, xhr ) where it's been parsed with JSON.parse anyway.