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Faster JavaScript Apps with JSON.parse()
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Because the JSON grammar is much simpler than JavaScript’s grammar, JSON can be parsed more efficiently than JavaScript. This knowledge can be applied to improve start-up performance for web apps that ship large JSON-like configuration object literals (such as inline Redux stores).

const data = { foo: 42, bar: 1337 }; // 🐌
const data = JSON.parse('{"foo":42,"bar":1337}'); // 🚀
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