Developer Guides
In-depth references written to be read once and returned to often — the rules, the failure modes, and the conventions that hold up in production.
JSON Guide
Start here
Start here: what JSON is, how its grammar works, and where to go next.
9 min readJSON Formatting
What pretty-printing does, 2 vs 4 spaces, and how to format JSON in every major language.
7 min readJSON Syntax Rules
The complete grammar — and the exact ways JSON is stricter than JavaScript.
8 min readCommon JSON Errors
Every parse error, what actually caused it, and the fix. Start here when something is broken.
8 min readJSON Validation
Syntax validation versus schema validation — and when you need JSON Schema.
7 min readMinifying JSON
What minifying saves, and the reason it is usually pointless on API responses.
6 min readJSON vs XML vs YAML
Where each format wins, where each loses, and how to choose.
7 min readJSON Best Practices
Naming, dates, money, nulls, and the design mistakes that are expensive to reverse.
8 min read