Converting an object to JSON and back again

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is very closely related to JavaScript objects because it's a subset of JavaScript. This task will demonstrate how to use the building blocks of JSON conversion: JSON.parse and JSON.stringify.

Getting ready

We'll need to create two new files called profiles.js and json_and_back.js.

How to do it...

Let's create the object that we'll later be converting to JSON.

module.exports = {
ryan: {
name: "Ryan Dahl",
irc: "ryah",
twitter: "ryah",
github: "ry",
location: "San Francisco, USA",
description: "Creator of node.js"
},
isaac: {
name: "Isaac Schlueter",
irc: "isaacs",
twitter: "izs",
github: "isaacs",
location: "San Francisco, USA",
description: "Author of npm, core contributor"
},
bert: {
name: "Bert Belder",
irc: "piscisaureus",
twitter: "piscisaureus",
github: "piscisaureus",
location: "Netherlands",
description: "Windows support, overall contributor"
},
tj: {
name: "TJ Holowaychuk",
irc: "tjholowaychuk",
twitter...