Node.js JSON.parse(string) is returning a string

Question

I have a JSON object as a string, I am parsing it with JSON.parse() but the resulting object is still a string. Am I doing something wrong?

var myString = "{Username:Brad,Password:12345}";

// adding in the quotes or else it throws an error saying 'unidentified token U
var myJson = JSON.parse('"' + myString + '"');

console.log(myJson.Username); // prints 'undefined'
console.log(typeof(myJson));  // prints 'string'

Answer 1

That's not valid JSON. keys and strings need to be quoted:

var myString = '{"Username":"Brad","Password":12345}';
var myJson = JSON.parse( myString );

See json.org for information about JSON.