Topic
JSON
4 ZeroUtil articles cover JSON, published between March 2026 and August 2026. Each one is written to explain the mechanism rather than list steps, and links to the free browser tools that do the job.
These articles sit alongside the developer tools toolset.
Why tsconfig.json Allows Comments and package.json Does Not
Both files end in .json. One accepts comments and trailing commas, the other throws. The difference is not the extension - it is which parser reads the file.
The Developer's JSON Guide: Everything Worth Knowing About JSON in 2026
The spec, the dialects that disagree, the numbers that quietly break, and the security advice that points at the wrong recursion. With the cluster map.
Debugging Malformed JSON: A Field Guide
The parse error is better than its reputation. How to read what V8 says now, the five failure modes behind most broken payloads, and the two errors that hide their position.
JSON vs JSON5 vs JSONC: What Each Parser Actually Accepts
Three formats, one file extension, and no agreement on what counts as valid. Measured against the real parsers, including two that disagree while being the same library.