--- title: "An Introduction to JSON" url: https://daily.dev/posts/an-introduction-to-json-c4zed5-ev source_url: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-json type: article source: "DigitalOcean Community" published: 2022-08-25T21:41:33.799Z updated: 2022-08-25T21:41:33.798Z tags: ["javascript", "php", "digitalocean"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 12 comments: 0 language: 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. # An Introduction to JSON **[DigitalOcean Community](https://daily.dev/sources/do_community)** · 6 min read · 12 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, is a format for sharing data. As its name suggests, it's derived from the JavaScript programming language, but it's available for use by many languages including Python, Ruby, PHP, and Java. Data can also be nested within the JSON format by using JavaScript arrays that are passed as a value. Arrays are ordered collections and can contain values of different data types. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#digitalocean](https://daily.dev/tags/digitalocean) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/an-introduction-to-json-c4zed5-ev)