jsonbox 📦

Library and CLI to transform JSON files

If you have worked with Javascript and JSON at all, you inevitable have been in the position where you need to apply a bunch of transformations to a particular json file (or object read from one).

Commonly, this is how this is done (programatically):

let myObj = require('./some/file.json');
myObj.foo = 'bar';
myObj.test = {
    abc: true
};
delete myObj.baz;
fs.writeFileSync(myObj);

And there's no out-of-the-box way to do this in the command line (for quick manipulation of json files).
jsonbox provides a cleaner syntax:

jsonbox.load('./some/file.json').set({
    foo: 'bar',
    test: {
        abc: true
    }
}).remove('baz').save();

And this can even be done directly from the command line!

$ jsonbox open ./some/file.json \
    edit \
        --set foo=bar \
        --set test={abc: true} \
        --remove baz
    write

Table of Contents

• Install
• Contribute
• License

Install

jsonbox is both an API library and a command-line application.

To use jsonbox in your project, add as a dependency:

npm install --save jsonbox

To use as a command-line application (recommended globally):

npm install -g jsonbox-cli

Contribute

PRs accepted.

Small note: If editing the README, please conform to the standard-readme specification.

License

MIT © Israel Roldan (github@israelroldan.com)