Embedding JSON file's content in page

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I am trying to embed the content of a JSON file data.json into a Single Page Application (SPA). One way to do this is to embed the content directly as data using a script tag, per this link: Embeding Arbitrary JSON.

However, this approach is not perfect in my case, because:

data.json is 1000+ lines of code;
data.json is used in several places, including the page in discussion; and I want to keep just one copy of data.json;

I wonder if it's possible to have a pointer in the page to point to the external JSON file?

Note that this question is different from this question.

Yeah, Ajax would do. But I still wonder if it's possible to embed it into our page. — lgc_ustc
– lgc_ustc, Commented Aug 28, 2017 at 0:20
How do you serve the html? PHP? Node.js? or just static html pages? — Manuel Otto
– Manuel Otto, Commented Aug 28, 2017 at 0:21

Manuel Otto · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-28 00:23:29Z

For php you can just use something like this

<script> var data = <?php echo file_get_contents('PATH_TO_JSON_FILE'); ?>; </script>

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