Easy JSON examples

I was trying to find a link to some simple examples of how to format JSON, but I couldn’t find what I was looking for. So I am making my own examples below. They are based on the documentation. You can format and validate JSON here.

Object

• Objects are surrounded with { } curly braces.
• Elements in the object are key-value pairs (name-value pairs).
• Keys must be quoted with " double quotes.
• Keys and values are separated by a : colon.
• Multiple key-value pairs are separated by , commas.
• Key-value pairs are unordered.
• White space doesn’t matter.

{
    "name" : "Mary",
    "age" : 30
}

Array

• Arrays are surrounded with [ ] square brackets.
• Elements of the array are values.
• Multiple values are separated by , commas.
• Array values are ordered.

{
    "animals" : [
        "horse",
        "cow",
        "camel",
        "sheep",
        "goat"
    ]
}

In the example above, "animals" is a key (name) and the [...] array is a value.

Value

• Values can be strings, numbers, objects, arrays, boolean true or false, or null.

{
    "myString" : "Hello world",
    "myNumber" : 42,