🔌 Vite JSON5 (and JSONC) plugin

Plugin for allowing .json5 and .jsonc files to be loaded.

Note

This plugin is merely just a wrapper using the json5 package. So all the credits for the parsing goes out to the collaborators of that repository! I just made a plugin that allows files to be parsed using their package.

📦 Installation in 3 easy steps:

1. Install the package into to your project

# PNPM:
pnpm add -D vite-plugin-json5

# Yarn:
yarn add -D vite-plugin-json5

# NPM:
npm install -D vite-plugin-json5

2. Add it to your vite config

// vite.config.js

import json5Plugin from 'vite-plugin-json5'
// or
import { json5Plugin } from 'vite-plugin-json5'

export default defineConfig({
  json5Plugin()
})

3. That's it 🎉

You are now able to import files with the .jsonc and .json5 extensions! These will be parsed by the json5 package and turned into a regular js that the app will be able to read and not get confused by.

Options ⚙️

This plugin accepts the same options as the default JSON parser:

interface Json5Options {
    /**
     * Generate a named export for every property of the JSON object
     * @default true
     */
    namedExports?: boolean;
    /**
     * Generate performant output as JSON.parse("stringified").
     * Enabling this will disable namedExports.
     * @default false
     */
    stringify?: boolean;
}

Contributing 🏗️

A guide for setting up the development environment to allow for easy contributions.

1. Install dependencies:

   $ pnpm install

2. Make changes

3. Run tests

   $ pnpm test

4. Build when successful

   $ pnpm build

5. Run the playground to test the build

   $ pnpm dev

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Extra 🍕

The reason why I created the plugin is because I would like to be able to write comments in my JSON lang files to give more context about the translations. The problem was, when I imported a .json5 or .jsonc file it threw errors about needing a custom plugin for these types of files. I couldn't find one yet so... here it is!