javascript-parse (create object from string generated with javascript-stringify)

[drschwabe]

Just wanted to A) see if there is an existing way to do this without being too hacky (see hacky solution below) and if not, B) suggest the feature or a supplementary module to do parsing of javascript-stringified output so that we can create an object from a string generated with javascript-stringify.

Regarding potential existing way, I tried this lib but does not seem to be able to parse an object output with javascript-stringify

https://github.com/greenpioneersolutions/auto-parse

(note for my test I wrote the javascript-stringify output to a file and then performed a fs.readFile(objString, 'utf8') on it and then attempted to read the resulting string with auto-parse)

The way that I found which actually works is a bit hacky and requires Node:

you can write the javascript-stringify output to a string, append module.exports=, write to disk, and perform a require on the resulting file.

related: https://github.com/blakeembrey/javascript-stringify/issues/32