Txt2json – Alternative to YAML, TOML, Hjson

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7 years ago

For a project where we decided on a JSON DSL, I made a preprocessor to create JSON files in a simple, human readable, text format.

https://github.com/mjkoster/txt2json

I use YAML also, but wanted something closer to JSON syntactically.

Then I discovered HJSON and TOML in the config language space and thought I would share my results here where there has been some discussion.

The main feature of txt2json is blocks: "" - quoted strings for use when a string looks like a number or boolean or contains whitespace {} - JSON object [] - JSON array // - Comment block, removed in output

see examples in the txt2json github repository