Basic Usage
Blowson can either be used as a parsing function in your Node script or as a CLI tool.
Add package to Node project
$ npm i blowson --saveCreate a sample file "data.js"
Your sample data file:
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const userCount = 50;
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const commentCount = 250;
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module.exports = {
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"users": [
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{ "id": 1, "firstname": "Mike", "age": 12 },
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{ "id": userCount, "firstname": "Lucy", "age": 31 }
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],
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"comments": [
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{ "id": 1, "user_id": 1, "text": "Some text" },
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{ "id": commentCount, "user_id": userCount, "text": "Some more text" }
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]
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};
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Parse sample data in Node script
And than in your script:
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const blowson = require('blowson');
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const data = require('./data.js');
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const extendedData = blowson(data);
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console.log(extendedData);
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blowson function accepts either a JSON string or a JSON like JavaScript object. In case of a JSON string, a nicelly formatted string is being returned. This however involves some extra parsing on the side of Blowson, so we recommend using a JSON like JS object.Have a look at the index.js for a complete example and check out data.js for an example data file.
CLI Usage
You can use Blowson as a CLI script. All you need to do is install the package globally:
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$ npm install -g blowson
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And than run it like this:
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$ blowson data.js data-extended.js
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Or:
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$ blowson data.json data-extended.json
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