--- title: A Developer’s Guide to Marshaling Data With JSON | daily.dev description: JSON is a human-readable text format for marshaling structured data, offering a simpler alternative to XML. The format uses key-value pairs, supports nested... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-marshaling-data-with-json-7edfoldam twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Developer’s Guide to Marshaling Data With JSON | daily.dev og:description: JSON is a human-readable text format for marshaling structured data, offering a simpler alternative to XML. The format uses key-value pairs, supports nested... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-marshaling-data-with-json-7edfoldam og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7EDFolDaM.png og:image:alt: A Developer’s Guide to Marshaling Data With JSON og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Developer’s Guide to Marshaling Data With JSON **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JSON is a human-readable text format for marshaling structured data, offering a simpler alternative to XML. The format uses key-value pairs, supports nested structures and arrays, and is ideal for configuration files and state persistence. Most programming languages provide built-in JSON parsing libraries. 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