JavaScript and JSON Essentials -- Table of Contents -- JavaScript and JSON Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. JavaScript Basics -- Variables in JavaScript -- Arrays -- Objects -- The Carousel application -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started with JSON -- The Hello World program with JSON -- Datatypes in JSON -- Languages that support JSON -- PHP -- Python -- Summary -- 3. Working with Real-time JSON -- Accessing objects in JSON -- Performing complex operations -- Modifying JSON -- Summary -- 4. AJAX Calls with JSON Data -- Requirements for AJAX -- Hosting JSON -- Making your first AJAX call -- Parsing JSON data -- Summary -- 5. Cross-domain Asynchronous Requests -- Making GET and POST AJAX calls with JSON data -- The problem with cross-domain AJAX calls -- Introduction to JSONP -- Implementing JSONP -- Summary -- 6. Building the Carousel Application -- Setting up the application -- Building the JSON file for the Carousel application -- Creating the Carousel application with jQuery Cycle -- Summary -- 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON -- Dependency management -- JSON for storing metadata -- Comparisons with YAML -- Summary -- 8. Debugging JSON -- Using the developer tools -- Validating JSON -- Formatting JSON -- Summary -- Index.