yj VS www.yaml.org

For anyone looking for such a script, there's some CLIs that make it easy. One is `yq -o props` [1], another way is to use `yq -j` or `yj` [2] to convert to JSON and pipe it to `gron` [3].

[1] https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

[2] https://github.com/sclevine/yj

[3] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

Also checkout yj[1] which can convert between various formats among toml->json

[1]: https://github.com/sclevine/yj

json is just a subset of yaml. https://github.com/sclevine/yj

This requires yj and obviously docker-compose to be on your $PATH. You can use yj to convert your docker-compose.yaml to TOML like this

First of all, create a file in the root project directories called compose.yaml. YAML is a text format that uses indentation to specify dependencies between configuration options. Be aware that incorrect indentation will cause problems with executing commands properly.

Most commonly written in YAML, these files are large and complex to read and understand. And being written in YAML comes with its challenges (and quirks) since it is an additional programming language that devs need to learn.

YAML Ain't a Markup Language

Note, that this file is a Markdown and YAML file at the same time, and as such human- and machine-readable, if the fields are filled carefully.

Front matter is a bit of text at the start of a file (YAML to be exact) that is placed between two ---

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

Personally, I'd love to see them using a standard file format like TOML or YAML so that they're easy to parse and work with using already-existing tools.