json-sort-cli open source npm package

Installation

Choose the installation type:

Idea

Use it

Once installed, either call jsonsort or sortjson with file name, folder name or a list thereof, with or without flags:

$ jsonsort file1.json "folder1/folder2/**/*.*" folder3 -s
$ jsonsort * -t -n -s
$ jsonsort yourspecialfolder -s

$ jsonsort -v
$ jsonsort --version
$ jsonsort -h
$ jsonsort --help

or sortjson, same thing. We wired up both. See the API section (of call for help via CLI, jsonsort -h).

API — flags

short	long	description
	`-n`
`-n`	`--nodemodules`	Don’t ignore any node_modules folders and package-lock.json’s

	`-t`
`-t`	`--tabs`	Use tabs for JSON file indentation

	`-i`
`-i`	`--indentationCount`	How many spaces or tabs to use (default = 2 spaces or 1 tab)

	`-s`
`-s`	`--silent`	When on, no output is shown. If enabled, you’ll distinguish success from failure by exit code.

	`-a`
`-a`	`--arrays`	Also sort any arrays if they contain only string elements

	`-h`
`-h`	`--help`	Shows (similar to this) help

	`-v`
`-v`	`--version`	Shows the installed version of your `json-sort-cli`

	`-p`
`-p`	`--pack`	Skip all `package.json` files

	`-d`
`-d`	`--dry`	Only output the paths of the files

	`-c`
`-c`	`--ci`	Does nothing, exits with non-zero code if files COULD BE sorted, with zero code if no sort needed.

Put either short or long version of a desired flag, before or after the path or list of paths. For example, all these commands below are the same:

jsonsort templates/springsale03 -s
jsonsort -s templates/springsale03
jsonsort templates/springsale03 --silent
jsonsort --silent templates/springsale03

What it does exactly

It sorts JSON files deeply.

That is, it does not matter is it’s a plain object within array within array within a plain object — all objects no matter how deep, will be detected and sorted.

If this tool processes any package.json files (put -p to disable this), it will first deep-sort alphabetically, then use format-package (npm) to arrange keys according to a commonly agreed format — name at the top, depedencies at the bottom etc.

This is a parsing-type application, so written files are also prettified — tabulations and whitespace are fixed to an (arbitrary) order. If you leave the default setting, it will indent using two spaces. If you call it with a flag -t, one tab will be used.

Under the bonnet, this application uses ast-monkey-traverse, sort-package-json.

Extra features

package.json are first deep-sorted alphabetically, then using format-package (npm) (on by default, but put -p to disable this)
Works on dot files, as long as they are parse-able as JSON
Can process a set of files in folder (use wildcards for example, jsonsort "**/packages/*/data/*.json")
Broken JSON files don’t stop the process, other healthy files from batch are still sorted. Notifies user.
System files like .DS_Store are not processed by default, don’t worry about excluding them in the input path.

CI mode

When in CI mode, this CLI won’t amend the files, only calculate the sorted result, compare the file’s contents with it, then exit with a:

zero code, if sorting would make no difference to a file
non-zero code, if sorting would not make any difference

Basically, your scripts with this CLI would fail on unsorted JSON’s. Thanks widerin for the idea for this feature.

CI mode does not write files, only exits with one code or another.

Changelog

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json-sort-cli4.0.20