JSON.stringify doesn’t work with normal Javascript array

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JavaScript arrays are designed to hold data with numeric indexes. You can add named properties to them because an array is a type of object (and this can be useful when you want to store metadata about an array which holds normal, ordered, numerically indexed data), but that isn’t what they are designed for.

The JSON array data type cannot have named keys on an array.

When you pass a JavaScript array to JSON.stringify the named properties will be ignored.

If you want named properties, use an Object, not an Array.

const test = {}; // Object
test.a="test";
test.b = []; // Array
test.b.push('item');
test.b.push('item2');
test.b.push('item3');
test.b.item4 = "A value"; // Ignored by JSON.stringify
const json = JSON.stringify(test);
console.log(json);

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