parse-json

Parse JSON with more helpful errors

Install

$ npm install parse-json

Usage

```js const parseJson = require('parse-json');

const json = '{\n\t"foo": true,\n}';

JSON.parse(json); / undefined:3 } ^ SyntaxError: Unexpected token } /

parseJson(json); /* JSONError: Unexpected token } in JSON at position 16 while parsing near '{ "foo": true,}'

1 | { 2 | "foo": true,

3 | } | ^ */

parseJson(json, 'foo.json'); /* JSONError: Unexpected token } in JSON at position 16 while parsing near '{ "foo": true,}' in foo.json

1 | { 2 | "foo": true,

3 | } | ^ */

// You can also add the filename at a later point try { parseJson(json); } catch (error) { if (error instanceof parseJson.JSONError) { error.fileName = 'foo.json'; }

throw error;

} /* JSONError: Unexpected token } in JSON at position 16 while parsing near '{ "foo": true,}' in foo.json

1 | { 2 | "foo": true,

3 | } | ^ */ ```

API

parseJson(string, reviver?, filename?)

Throws a JSONError when there is a parsing error.

string

Type: string

reviver

Type: Function

Prescribes how the value originally produced by parsing is transformed, before being returned. See JSON.parse docs for more.

filename

Type: string

Filename displayed in the error message.

parseJson.JSONError

Exposed for instanceof checking.

fileName

Type: string

The filename displayed in the error message.

codeFrame

Type: string

The printable section of the JSON which produces the error.