Creating .json file and storing data in it with JavaScript?

Question

Creating .json file and storing data in it with JavaScript?

I have a back-end JavaScript file that runs on node.js. It do some stuff using async.series and yields the final dictionary(object) with data I need on my front-end. I now how to read a .json file and convert it into the JavaScript object, but I do not know create .json file with back-end JavaScript and how to store some data in it.

Could anyone please tell me the right way to do this.

Here is the dictionary(object) that I need to convert and store to the .json file.

var dict = {"one" : [15, 4.5],
            "two" : [34, 3.3],
            "three" : [67, 5.0],
            "four" : [32, 4.1]};

javascript
json
node.js

Answer 1

Simple! You can convert it to a JSON (as a string). var dictstring = JSON.stringify(dict);

To save a file in NodeJS: var fs = require('fs'); fs.writeFile("thing.json", dictstring);

Also, objects in javascript use colons, not equals: var dict = {"one" : [15, 4.5], "two" : [34, 3.3], "three" : [67, 5.0], "four" : [32, 4.1]};