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json doesn't have ints, it has Numbers, which are ieee754 floats. if you want to precisely store the full range of a 64 bit int (anything larger than 2^53 -1) then string is indeed the correct type
Let me show you what Ethan has to say about this: https://feddit.org/post/319546/174361