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load-json-file
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Read and parse a JSON file
It also strips UTF-8 BOM.
$ npm install load-json-file
import {loadJsonFile} from 'load-json-file';
console.log(await loadJsonFile('foo.json'));
//=> {foo: true}
Returns a Promise<unknown> with the parsed JSON.
Returns the parsed JSON.
Type: object
Type: Function
Applies a function to the JSON string before parsing.
Type: Function
Prescribes how the value originally produced by parsing is transformed, before being returned. See the JSON.parse docs for more.
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Similar to 'load-json-file', 'jsonfile' offers APIs to read and write JSON files. It provides both asynchronous and synchronous methods but has additional write capabilities, making it more versatile if modification of JSON files is required.
While 'fs-extra' extends the native 'fs' module and includes all its methods, it also adds file operation methods not found in the standard library. It supports JSON file operations similar to 'load-json-file' but is more comprehensive in terms of general file handling capabilities.
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Read and parse a JSON file
The npm package load-json-file receives a total of 20,557,748 weekly downloads. As such, load-json-file popularity was classified as popular.
We found that load-json-file demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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