One of the top issues developers face when dealing with APIs, configuration files, Web applications, and data exchanges is invalid JSON. An entire JSON document can be unreadable due to incorrect use of a single quotation mark, backslash, or a comma. Fortunately, most JSON errors are easily corrected once you know what the parser expects….

HTML double escaping is an issue encountered by developers who want to display user input, HTML entities, and when they create dynamic web pages. It occurs when the special characters are escaped more than once so that the browser displays the encoded text rather than the escaped characters. For instance, the web page may present…

The concepts of escaping, encoding and sanitization are central to web development and cyber security. These three can all affect the way that data is represented or manipulated, but each has a different purpose, which can often lead to confusion. The distinction is useful for creating safer websites, for avoiding injection attacks of user input…

No idea how to do this using a merge operation so that existing data isn’t lost. The ability to Merge JSON objects is a commonly occurring operation in JavaScript that is performed in API processing, user preferences, application configuration, structured data, etc. But if two objects are merged incorrectly, then properties or values may be…

Markdown is popular for creating technical documentation, tutorials, README files, and programming documentation. It to presents code, programming ideas and examples in a clean and readable manner. However, things can become confusing when you need to display backticks inside Markdown code blocks. Backticks are often used for inline code and to define fenced code blocks….

JSON is used on a lot of web pages to pass data between pages or between applications, to the API and to the server. Special characters like double quotes, backslashes, and line breaks can, however, be troublesome if not managed properly leading to parsing problems. How to Escape Special Characters in JSON Strings. Learning about…