Using gulp/node, how can I convert this JSON file into a YML file?
Starting file: config.json
{
":hello_world": "Test",
":foo_bar": [
"One.js",
"Two.txt",
]
}
Desired output: config.yml
:hello_world: Test
:foo_bar:
- One.js
- Two.txt
You can use js-yaml, which seems to be the most widely used / adopted, and also is officially recommended by yaml.org
npm i js-yaml
Then you can read in the json file, parse with safeLoad, and then serialize with safeDump like this:
const { promises: fs } = require("fs")
const yaml = require('js-yaml');
(async function main() {
try {
let configJson = await fs.readFile("./config.json", "utf-8")
let doc = yaml.safeLoad(configJson)
let configYaml = yaml.safeDump(doc)
await fs.writeFile("./config.yaml", configYaml, "utf-8")
} catch (error) {
console.log(error)
}
})()