write-data

Write a YAML or JSON file to disk. Automatically detects the format to write based on extension. Or pass ext on the options.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save write-data

Install with yarn:

$ yarn add write-data

Usage

Add to your node.js application with the following line of code:

var writeData = require('write-data');

// async
writeData(filepath, data[, options], function(err) {
  // do stuff with "err"
});

// sync
writeData.sync(filepath, data[, options]);

API

The file extension is used to detect the data format to write. This can be overriden by passing a value on options.ext.

YAML examples

var data = {language: 'node_js', node_js: ['0.10', '0.12']};

// async
writeData('.travis.yml', data, function(err) {
  // do stuff with "err"
});

// sync
writeData.sync('.travis.yml', data);

Both would write a .travis.yml file to disk with the following contents:

language: node_js
node_js:
  - "0.10"
  - "0.12"

JSON examples

var data = { name: 'foo', version: '0.1.0' };

// async
writeData('package.json', data, function(err) {
  // do stuff with "err"
});

// sync
writeData.sync('package.json', data);

Both would write a package.json file to disk with the following contents:

{ 
  "name": "foo", 
  "version": "0.1.0" 
}

About

Related projects

• read-data: Read JSON or YAML files. | homepage
• read-yaml: Very thin wrapper around js-yaml for directly reading in YAML files. | homepage
• write-json: Write a JSON file to disk, also creates intermediate directories in the destination path if… more | homepage
• write-yaml: Write YAML. Converts JSON to YAML writes it to the specified file. | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.5.0, on April 12, 2017.