Ion-JS is a Javascript library for Ion. The library allows for reading/writing Ion data from within Javascript code.
For more information on Ion have a look at the Ion Specification as well as some of the other Ion language specific libraries such as
You can use ion-js either as a Node.js module or inside an html page.
ion-js to your dependencies using npm
npm install --save-dev ion-js
var ionJs = require("ion-js")
var ionData = "{ hello: \"Ion\" }";
var ionReader = ionJs.makeReader(ionData);
ionReader.next();
ionReader.stepIn();
ionReader.next();
var hello = ionReader.fieldName();
var ion = ionReader.stringValue();
ionReader.stepOut();
console.log(ion.concat(", ").concat(hello));
You can include the Ion-js bundle (ES5 compatible) using the URLs
These will create and initialize window.ion which has the exact API as our npm package. Here is an example
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
<script src="scripts/ion-bundle.min.js"></script>
<!-- more HTML/JS code that can now use `window.ion` to create/write Ion -->
</head>
</html>
FAQs
A JavaScript implementation of the Ion data interchange format
The npm package ion-js receives a total of 9,122 weekly downloads. As such, ion-js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ion-js demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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