yamedit tries to solve the problem of modifying human maintained YAML files in a clean and safe way. It preserves the structure/layout of the existing YAML string, as well as any comments in the file.
It is not a fully-fledged YAML parser/writer, and only deals with updating values for existing fields in a YAML file. It cannot add new fields or new sub-trees to the data structure.
const fs = require('fs');
const yamedit = require('yamedit');
const yaml = fs.readFileSync('config.yaml');
const newYAML = yamedit.edit(yaml, 'path.to[3].field', 'newValue');
fs.writeFileSync('config.yaml');
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Modify human maintained YAML files
We found that yamedit 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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