Node YAML
A wrapper for js-yaml parser
This documentation is actual for next major version of the library. If you want the documentation of current stable version, please check out the 3.x branch.
Installation
You can install this module from Yarn:
yarn add node-yaml js-yaml
Or using NPM:
npm install node-yaml js-yaml
Usage
- Let's read some file from given path using node-yaml:
- Both
read
andreadSync
methods allows to omit file extension:
// Will read the content from given path, but also resolve file extension// Note that if you have 2 files with the same name,// the first matched will be read.
API
yaml.read(filename[, options]) -> {Promise<object>}
Read and parse YAML file from given path. Takes following arguments:
- {string | number} filename – path to file or a file descriptor. Path can omit the file extension.
- {object} {options = undefined} – reading options
- {string} [options.encoding = "utf8"] – an encoding used to read the file
- more options you can find in js-yaml docs in safeLoad section
yaml.readSync(filename[, options]) -> {object}
Synchronous version of yaml.read
yaml.write(filename, object[, options]) -> {Promise<void>}
Write given YAML content to disk. Takes following arguments:
- {string | number} filename – path to file or a file descriptor. Path can omit the file extension.
- {object} object – a content to write to the file
- {object} {options = undefined} – writing options
- {string} [options.encoding = "utf8"] – an encoding used to write to the file
- more options you can find in js-yaml docs in safeDump section
yaml.writeSync(filename, object[, options]) -> {void}
Synchronous version of yaml.write