douglascrockford/JSON-js
JSON in JavaScript observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5767
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1211
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
8718 stars · 4477 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Douglas Crockford's original JSON library for JavaScript, providing JSON.stringify and JSON.parse via 2.js for environments lacking a built-in JSON object, plus cycle.js for encoding cyclical structures. It is now largely historical since JSON is built into modern JavaScript engines.
Use cases
- parse JSON strings in old browsers like IE8
- serialize JavaScript objects to JSON
- encode cyclical object structures in JSON
- recover decycled JSON back into object graphs
- polyfill the JSON global object
When to choose
- you must support legacy browsers without native JSON support
- you need to serialize objects containing circular references or DAGs
When to avoid
- targeting only modern browsers or Node.js, which have built-in JSON
- you need high-performance or streaming JSON parsing
- you need a maintained library with a license file
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
serialization parser developer-tools web-development apis browser legacy-browsers crockford cyclical-references nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js · fetched 2026-08-28 · 42aafa11b2a8
- homepage: http://www.JSON.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9003a04a28ed
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| douglascrockford/JSON-js | main | 32 |
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