We have the string printing out, but

we want to access the properties programmatically.

We want to convert the string into an object.

The process of converting a string into a data structure is called parsing.

You may not know this, but if you look at the documentation to parse JSON,

it can't be found as a host object in the Node.js environment,

it's actually a native object.

A good reference for native objects is the Mozilla Developer Network.

I've included a link in the teacher's notes.

As you can see, there's a method called parse.

You can pass in a string to get parsed into a JSON object.

Let's add the functionality to our code.

We'll store the object as a constant variable called Profile.

We can use console.dir, To take a look inside the profile.

We can use the DIR output to figure out how many number of badges we've got and

how many points in the JavaScript topic area.

We have a badges array, so we can print out the message.

Profile.badges.length, which will be our badge count.

Finally, we have a points object that is segmented into each topic area.

We want the JavaScript points.

So we can do profile.points.JavaScript.

Let's try this out and see what happens.

There I am with my badge count and JavaScript points.