PTA Journals node js api

Plain text accounting JS helpers to interact with the ledger / hledger journal file format.

On the TS / JS side Transactions are described by the Transaction type

Apis

formatTransaction

import { formatTransaction } from 'pta-journal';

function formatTransaction(trx: Transaction): string

Returns the Transaction formatted in a way suitable to be appendend to a journal file

parse

import { parse } from 'pta-journal';

function parse(stream: ReadableStream): ParseResult

type ParseResult = {
  transactions: Transaction[];
  accounts: string[];
  commodities: string[];
};

Returns the transactions, the accounts and the commodities from a journal. To get the stream of the journal you can use