js2json

Converts JSON-structured JavaScript source to JSON. The JSON-structured
source is JavaScript source that contains some expressions that aren't
valid JSON but can easily be converted to it. For instance, a function
expression will be converted to JSON by taking its source, stripping its
indentation, and putting it into a JSON string. This is currently the
only JavaScript expression that is supported.

This is designed to provide a way to edit CouchApps in a single file by
cloning them directly from CouchDB! Stay tuned for more tools and
documentation to support this workflow.

[Esprima][esprima] is used to find the function definitions. js2json
replaces the functions with plain-JSON strings containing the source,
and removes the required module.exports = fragment and runs the
result through JSON.parse.

synopsis

example.js:

`` javascript
module.exports = {
"hello": function() {
/ a comment /
console.log('Hello, world.');
}
}
`

run-example.js:

` javascript
var js2json = require('js2json')
, fs = require('fs')
, src = fs.readFileSync('./example.js', 'utf8')
, obj = js2json.convert(src);
console.log(JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2));
`

output:

`
{
"hello": "function() {\n / a comment /\n console.log('Hello, world.');\n}"
}
``

[esprima]: http://esprima.org/