Ep 8: Check if a string is valid JSON || 9 useful code snippets for everyday JavaScript development

Welcome to this JavaScript snippets series, In this series, we will look at some of the most common JavaScript snippets which will help you with your everyday JavaScript development.

You can always use 3rd party utility libraries, but knowing these vanilla JavaScript snippets is always beneficial.

And these snippets are so easy and small, that you should always prefer them instead of a 3rd party utility library.

If you have ever accessed an object from localStorage, you know that you get a stringified version of that object.

And, now you want to check if that stringified object is valid JSON or not.

The snippet in this video will help you exactly with that.

In the try block, we parse the string with JSON Parse method.
If string in invalid JSON, catch block will return false else true.

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