How to read and update JSON files with Node.js [16 of 26]

JSON is a file format particularly useful for storing data in Node.js applications. Learn how to read and modify JSON files while taking care of potential failures.

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Extra resources:

- Demo source code: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/node-essentials

- fs API: https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

- Node.js: https://nodejs.org

- Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com

- Beginner's Series to JavaScript: https://aka.ms/JSBeginnerSeries