Optimal loading and receiving data from JSON

[DRaNnIKs98]

I would like to hear some advice, I’m going to make a visual novel. I decided to store the scene data in json.
Example:

{
	"info" : [
		{ "text" : "Hmmm", "size" : "1", "color" : "Red",  "bg" :  "bg.png", "character" : "chr.png",  "buttoncount" :  "0"  },
		{ "text" : "Hello", "size" : "1", "color" : "Red",  "bg" :  "bg.png", "character" : "chr.png",  "buttoncount" :  "0"  },
		{ "text" : "Goodbye", "size" : "1", "color" : "Red",  "bg" :  "bg.png", "character" : "chr.png",  "buttoncount" :  "0"  }
	]
}

Can you recommend how best to upload a file that will have several thousand rows and whether it is possible to upload only one element of the json array, so ass not to create a lua table that will store all thousands of elements. Or would it be easier and more optimal to create the entire lua table once and use it.

[selimanac]

Where to put data: Lua vs JSON

Using a Lua file instead of JSON may be a convenient way to store data in [[Defold]], especially for small files. However, this approach has its downsides, especially when dealing with very large files. Let’s compare these four approaches: Lua file of 9.1Mb loaded with require. In this case it’s processed as a code file (compilation, etc.) local data = require("main.lua.data") the same Lua file loaded as a custom resource using loadstring() self.data = loadstring(sys.load_resource("/main…