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Replies for: Hi, Paula. Great article! I have one question, in JSON we can easily create a list of objects without “naming” them, like this: [{“a”: “b”}, {“x”: ...

Great question!
You can achieve that by entering the hyphen first and then the properties in a new line, like so:

- 
    name: George
    last-name: Orwell
- 
    name: Stephen
    last-name: King

Which will translate to JSON as:

[
    {
        "name": "George",
        "last-name": "Orwell"
    },
    {
        "name": "Stephen",
        "last-name": "King"
    }
]

Also here's a nice online tool I've been using to try the YAML syntax and see its JSON counterpart.