Embedding JSON file's content in page

Question

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:

1. data.json is 1000+ lines of code;
2. 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.

Answer 1

For php you can just use something like this

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