What is the difference between a JS object literal and a JSON string?
javascript, json
Solution
JSON is a just a data format, like XML. True JSON should have the keys surrounded by double quotes, like so:
{"foo":"bar"}
JavaScript Objects are part of the JavaScript language, and have associated things such as a prototype.
Object literals is creating a javascript object in place with brackets as opposed to using the `new` keyword, or `Object.create()`.
//object literal
var foo = {};
//equivalent
var foo = new Object();
Problem
I have confusion about what exactly people mean by Object Literals, JSON, JavaScript Objects, to me they seem similar: ``` {foo: 'bar', bar : 'baz'} ``` AFAIK, above is object literal, json as well as javascript object, isn't it? Does object literal and json mean the same thing ? How do you guys differentiate which is what?