read-json-lines-sync

Synchronous reader of a string containing many lines in JSON format

installation

with NPM:

npm install --save read-json-lines-sync

or with yarn:

yarn add read-json-lines-sync

usage

import readJsonLines from 'read-json-lines-sync';
// or alternative syntax:
// const readJsonLines = require('read-json-lines-sync').default;

const lines = `{"foo":"bar"}
{"foo2":"bar2"}
`;

const result = readJsonLines(lines);

expect(result).to.deep.equal([
  { foo: 'bar' },
  { foo2: 'bar2' },
]);

specification

• It omits every line which isn't a valid JSON.
• For the remaining lines, it converts every line into an object.
• So it always returns an array (possibly an empty array if there's no line with a valid JSON).