What is a JSON file?

[grofee]

A JSON file stores data in key-value pairs and arrays; the software it was made for then accesses the data. JSON allows developers to store various data types as human-readable code, with the keys serving as names and the values containing related data.

[Akshay_M]

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a format for serializing data, i.e. exchanging data between several programs over files or over the internet. It is human readable and happens to be a subset of the Javascript programming language.