JSONauts

The ultimate reference for JSON tooling and specs.

Basics

If you're not familiar with JSON of course you want to check out json.org first. Then, go and have a look at the RFC4627 where the application/json media type is defined.

Front-end

• Backbone.js: model.toJSON(), collection.toJSON(), see also stackoverflow: [1], [2], [3]
• Dojo: dojo/json
• jQuery: getJSON(), parseJSON()
• lawnchair - simple JSON storage

Back-end and APIs

• There are over 2400 APIs listed on ProgrammableWeb.com that use JSON.
• CouchDB: HTTP Document API
• elasticsearch: Index API
• MongoDB: Writing Drivers and Tools
• Node.js: Parsers, npm package ajax
• PostgreSQL: v9.2 announcement, PostgreSQL as JSON Document Store gist

Hypermedia

• Collection+JSON - Hypermedia Type
• HAL - Hypertext Application Language
• OData: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Format
• The Object Network: Linking up our APIs
• A Convention for HTTP Access to JSON-Based Resources
• JSON for Linking Data
• JSON Reference
• JSON Pointer
• Home Documents for HTTP APIs

Transformation

• JSON Markup Language (JsonML)
• JSON-to-JSON Transformation
• JsonT - Transforming Json
• json2html - Transform JSON to HTML
• json-template - minimal but powerful templating language implemented in multiple languages
• Tride - turning tabular data into entities (CSV to JSON)
• XSLTJSON: transforming XML to JSON using XSLT
• Xml to JSON: Converting XML to JSON

Query

• JSONSelect
• SpahQL: query, manipulate and manage JSON data effortlessly.
• jaql - Query Language for JSON
• JSONiq - XQuery for JSON, JSON for XQuery
• JSONPath - XPath for JSON
• JSONPath Expression Tester
• ObjectPath - The agile query language for JSON

Schema and validation

• JSON Schema
• JSON Validation with JSON Schema
• JSONLint
• jsonvalidator
• JSON Editor
• JSON Editor
• JSON Editor Online
• JSON Editor
• JSON Viewer/Editor:With image view functionality

Talks and tutorials

• Doug Crockford: Discovering JavaScript Object Notation (video)
• Doug Crockford: The JSON Saga (video)
• Drew Wilson: An Introduction to JSON (video + material)
• Steve Klabnik: Designing Hypermedia APIs (slides)

JSONaut is a wordplay: see Jason and the Argonauts.