yaml.js
Standalone JavaScript YAML 1.2 Parser & Encoder. Works under node.js and all major browsers. Also brings command line YAML/JSON conversion tools.
Mainly inspired from Symfony Yaml Component.
How to use
Import yaml.js in your html page:
Parse yaml string:
nativeObject = YAML;
Dump native object into yaml string:
yamlString = YAML;
Load yaml file:
nativeObject = YAML;
Load yaml file:
YAML;
Use with node.js
Install module:
npm install yamljs
Use it:
YAML = ;// parse YAML stringnativeObject = YAML;// Generate YAMLyamlString = YAML;// Load yaml file using YAML.loadnativeObject = YAML;
Command line tools
You can enable the command line tools by installing yamljs as a global module:
npm install -g yamljs
Then, two cli commands should become available: yaml2json and json2yaml. They let you convert YAML to JSON and JSON to YAML very easily.
yaml2json
usage: yaml2json [-h] [-v] [-p] [-i INDENTATION] [-s] [-r] [-w] input
Positional arguments:
input YAML file or directory containing YAML files.
Optional arguments:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
-v, --version Show program's version number and exit.
-p, --pretty Output pretty (indented) JSON.
-i INDENTATION, --indentation INDENTATION
Number of space characters used to indent code (use
with --pretty, default: 2).
-s, --save Save output inside JSON file(s) with the same name.
-r, --recursive If the input is a directory, also find YAML files in
sub-directories recursively.
-w, --watch Watch for changes.
json2yaml
usage: json2yaml [-h] [-v] [-d DEPTH] [-i INDENTATION] [-s] [-r] [-w] input
Positional arguments:
input JSON file or directory containing JSON files.
Optional arguments:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
-v, --version Show program's version number and exit.
-d DEPTH, --depth DEPTH
Set minimum level of depth before generating inline
YAML (default: 2).
-i INDENTATION, --indentation INDENTATION
Number of space characters used to indent code
(default: 2).
-s, --save Save output inside YML file(s) with the same name.
-r, --recursive If the input is a directory, also find JSON files in
sub-directories recursively.
-w, --watch Watch for changes.
examples
# Convert YAML to JSON and output resulting JSON on the consoleyaml2json myfile.yml# Store output inside a JSON fileyaml2json myfile.yml > output.json# Output "pretty" (indented) JSONyaml2json myfile.yml --pretty# Save the output inside a file called myfile.jsonyaml2json myfile.yml --pretty --save# Watch a full directory and convert any YAML file into its JSON equivalentyaml2json mydirectory --pretty --save --recursive# Convert JSON to YAML and store output inside a JSON filejson2yaml myfile.json > output.yml# Output YAML that will be inlined only after 8 levels of indentationjson2yaml myfile.json --depth 8# Save the output inside a file called myfile.json with 4 spaces for each indentationjson2yaml myfile.json --indentation 4# Watch a full directory and convert any JSON file into its YAML equivalentjson2yaml mydirectory --pretty --save --recursive