Javascript and JSON Essentials is a 108 page hand-book covering JSON
basic usage with code
examples.
The book is devided into 8 chapters:
- Javascripts basic
- Getting started with JSON
- Working with real-time JSON
- AJAX calls with JSON data
- Cross domain async requests
- Tutorial - building a carousel application with JSON
- Alternative implementation of JSON
- debugging JSON
The book starts with javascript
basics and comparision between
javascript
and JSON
objects with overview of accepted datatypes for
JSON.
Chapter 3 provides some code snippets
for basic manipulation of
JSON
.
Chapters 4 and 5 are the core of the book, as they covers practical
code snippets
with JSON data:
XMLHttp request
- parsing JSON with
$getJSON
get
andpost
AJAX calls with JSON dataJSONP
The last chapters describes some sample carousel application using JSON and tools for debugging JSON.
This book can be a good read for a reader who has some basic
knowledge about JSON
and javascript
and is looking for a short
hands-on guide with practical code snippets with JSON
usage.