JSON Comments

Make your json config support comments.

Installation

$ npm install json-comments

Syntax:

// require `json-comments` in your main module only once
require('json-comments');

Examples:

config.json

{
  // this is host
  "host" : "localhost",

  "port" : 3000, //port

  "url" : "https://github.com/numbcoder", /* url */

  /*
  * comments support for json
  */
  "username": "abc"
}

app.js

require('json-comments');
var config = require('./config');

console.log(config);
// ...

Parse JSON string

var JSONC = require('json-comments');
var fs = require('fs');

var content = fs.readFileSync('./config.json', 'utf8');
// parse JSON String
var config = JSONC.parse(content);

console.log(config);

Minify the JSON string

var JSONC = require('json-comments');
var fs = require('fs');

var content = fs.readFileSync('./config.json', 'utf8');

// remove comments and spaces from JSON String
var JsonStr = JSONC.minify(content);

License

MIT