json5 VS hjson-js

JSON5 support

Meanwhile, formats have been evolving (JSON5, YAML), config entry points are constantly changing. These fluctuations, fortunately, were covered by tools like the cosmiconfig.

I think JSON5 is fairly close to this: https://json5.org

I reckon the only thing it's missing to be truly accessible to non-techies is that string values still need to be quoted, i.e. you can't have:

key: this is my value

(I'm definitely not saying it would be a good idea to allow quotes to be dropped, just that that's the only potential stumbling block I see for non-techies.)

I believe that's JSON5.

https://github.com/json5/json5

It's my preferred configuration file format, it fixes all the problems I have with JSON (trailing commas, comments) without turning it into a mess full of gotchas like YAML.

JSON 5 support

I would like to see mention of JSON5 which is 11 years its elder. For comments in JSON, JSON5 is a good starting point.

By the way.. if you use the hjson parser you can add comments to json files :) https://hjson.github.io/

I wish this took off https://hjson.github.io. I like it much more than yaml.

I don't know anything about VueJS either but HJSON is pretty cool in that regard https://hjson.github.io/

> Another difficult problem was checking for correct indentation visually (because the configuration is YAML-based and indentation matters).

why yaml? I hate it so much! my eyes hurt looking at it?

why not using https://hjson.github.io/ ?

HJSON [0] is also another format that tries to make it easier for humans to read / write json.

[0] https://hjson.github.io/

well there are json alternatives which fit this bill, such as HJSON.

https://hjson.github.io/

might not be as "common" but it has good implementations for many languages.

zdpack also pre-processes datapacks, allowing json files to be written in hjson or yaml, in addition to allowing a special extensible super-set of MCFunction I call CommandScript. You can check the github page for a quick overview of CommandScript.