The answer is in its name: JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). It is a standard text-based format for representing structured data based on JavaS

The answer is in its name: JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). It is a standard text-based format for representing structured data based on JavaScript object syntax. It follows me rules of what is possible to do in JavaScript and, if I recall correctly, the reason was that originally it was a feature to be able to drop JSON data into eval…