npm install coffee-beanbean
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An utility to generate JSON file from a coffee-script as well as yaml.
Installation
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$ npm install -g coffee-bean
Usage
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$ bean [-s file.bean|file.coffee|file.yml|file.yaml]
# file.json will be generated
Motivation
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Writing JSON files manually is tedious and error prone
* Forgetting to add commas between items
* Adding commas to the last item of an error or an object
* Forgetting to quote the keys
* Cannot add comments
Coffeescript's object notation is much cleaner by comparison.
A bean file is basically a coffeescript file that returns a JSON
object. The object will then be formatted according to JSON rules.
You can perform any legal coffeescript logic as long as the end result
is a JSON object.
This is best used for managing configuration files, such as
package.json. Just take a look at this module's package.bean for
inspiration.
YAML is also now supported.
LICENSE
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Released under MIT License.