Editorial standards
Every guide on this site is researched and written by Luiz Torres— the developer who also builds and maintains the tools. There is no content agency, no ghostwriters, and no anonymous "editorial team." One named person wrote what you are reading, and that person answers for its accuracy.
Code is run before it is published
Every JSON snippet in a guide is pasted through a real parser before the article ships — usually JSON.parse in Node and in the browser, plus the formatter on this site. If an article says [1, 2, 3,] throws Unexpected token ], that is because it actually did, not because it sounded plausible. Error messages are quoted from real engine output, which is why they occasionally differ between V8, SpiderMonkey, and JavaScriptCore — where that matters, the guide says so.
Specs beat blog posts
When a claim can be checked against a primary source, it is. For JSON that means RFC 8259, ECMA-404, and json.org; for JavaScript behavior it means MDN; for YAML and XML it means yaml.org and the W3C. Guides link to these sources inline so you can verify the claim yourself instead of trusting a paraphrase.
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Corrections
When an error is confirmed, the article is fixed and its updated date changes — no silent edits pretending the mistake never happened, and no stale version left up because it ranks. Found something wrong? Email contact@formatmyjson.com with the article and the claim in question; spec citations that contradict the text are the fastest way to get a fix out. Details on what to include are on the contact page.
Scope
These guides explain formats, syntax, and debugging. They are not a substitute for testing against your own data and runtime — a claim that holds for JSON.parse in a browser may not hold for a streaming parser in Go. Verify in your environment before you rely on anything in production.