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is there a way to do append new objects to a file?

I have the same question. Its working well for me but it overwrites the existing json rather than adding to it

Same here... this would be a perfect little json to file utility if it included jsonfile.appendFile() and jsonfile.appendFileSync() functionality too.

:+1: without this I cant use it.

please support append file

See my comments here, I think it's related.

I had a similar issue, wanted to to hack our package.json file to update the browser key depending on the environment, and this approach worked okay.

TL;DR - read the file in the object, update the update, and write the object back to the file afresh.

As discussed in https://github.com/jprichardson/node-jsonfile/issues/67, you can use Object.assign to accomplish something like this. You can't truly append to a JSON file in the filesystem sense, so I don't see the point of adding this syntax sugar to jsonfile.

@jprichardson what are your thoughts here?

@jprichardson what are your thoughts here?

Agreed. I'd prefer to rework (move to its own section) the README a bit to make it very clear and distinct on the two cases of appending or updating.