How to read an external local JSON file in JavaScript?

Question

I have saved a JSON file in my local system and created a JavaScript file in order to read the JSON file and print data out. Here is the JSON file:

{"res         


        

Answer 1

You can use d3.js to import JSON files. Just call d3 on your html body:

Then put this on your js scripts:

  d3.json("test.json").then(function(data_json) {
         //do your stuff
  })