Parsing JSON

We have the string printing out, but 0:00 we want to access the properties programmatically. 0:02 We want to convert the string into an object. 0:05 The process of converting a string into a data structure is called parsing. 0:09 You may not know this, but if you look at the documentation to parse JSON, 0:13 it can't be found as a host object in the Node.js environment, 0:17 it's actually a native object. 0:21 A good reference for native objects is the Mozilla Developer Network. 0:24 I've included a link in the teacher's notes. 0:28 As you can see, there's a method called parse. 0:31 You can pass in a string to get parsed into a JSON object. 0:34 Let's add the functionality to our code. 0:39 We'll store the object as a constant variable called Profile. 0:41 We can use console.dir, To take a look inside the profile. 0:56 We can use the DIR output to figure out how many number of badges we've got and 1:05 how many points in the JavaScript topic area. 1:09 We have a badges array, so we can print out the message. 1:17 Profile.badges.length, which will be our badge count. 1:26 Finally, we have a points object that is segmented into each topic area. 1:36 We want the JavaScript points. 1:43 So we can do profile.points.JavaScript. 1:46 Let's try this out and see what happens. 2:01 There I am with my badge count and JavaScript points. 2:06