jsonlint-cli

jsonlint-cli - cli wrapper for jsonlint

Thin wrapper around jsonlint improving on its cli. It introduces glob expansion and advanced schema validation. Borrows heavily from jsonlint in every regard.

Feature comparison

jsonlint-cli introduces valuable improvements and additions to the cli shipping with jsonlint.

|Feature |jsonlint |jsonlint-cli |Description | |------------------------|:----------------:|:----------------:|:-----------------------------------------------| |json validity checking |:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|jsonlint-cli uses jsonlint to parse and validate| |local schema validation |:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|specify local schemas to validate input against | |read from stdin |:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|stream json in via stdin | |read from fs |:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|specify file's path to lint | |glob expansion |:x: |:heavy_check_mark:|specify globs of files to lint, e.g. **/*.json| |remote schema validation|:x: |:heavy_check_mark:|specify remote schemas to validate against | |v4 schema validation |:x: |:heavy_check_mark:|use v4 jsonschema | |config files |:x: |:heavy_check_mark:|support for eslint style config files |

Installation

# Install it from npm
npm install -g jsonlint-cli

Usage

jsonlint-cli exposes a command line interface

❯ jsonlint-cli --help
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  [input] reads from stdin if [files] are omitted
  --ignore,-i     glob pattern to exclude from linting, defaults to: node_modules
  --validate,-s   uri to schema to use for validation, defaults to:
  --indent,-w     whitespace to use for pretty printing, defaults to: "  "
  --env,-e        json schema env to use for validation, defaults to: json-schema-draft-04
  --pretty,-p     pretty-print the input, defaults to: false
  --sort,-t       sort json keys alphabetically, defaults to: false
  --version,-v    print the version
  --help,-h       show this help

Configuration

jsonlint-cli picks up configuration files, searching upwards from process.cwd() or the file path if specified.

.jsonlintrc

{
  "validate": "", // schema uri to validate agains
  "ignore": ["node_modules/**/*"], // glob patterns to ignore
  "indent": "", // indent to use for pretty-printed output
  "env": "json-schema-draft-04", // json schema env version to use
  "pretty": true // pretty-print formatted json if quiet is false
}

.jsonlintignore

node_modules/ # ignored by default
distribution/

Copyright 2016 by Mario Nebl and contributors. Released under the MIT license.