How to use #Nodejs to read, process and write #JSON files? #JavaScript

You can use Node to process your JSON files locally.
Use Node File System API readFileSync to read a JSON file and writeFile to write the output.

Before writing to a file, use JSON stringify to JS Object to a JSON string.

// processJSON.js

var args = process.argv; // parse argument when the file is being executed

var inputFile = args[2] || './input.json';

var fs = require('fs');

var inputData;

inputData = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(inputFile, 'utf8'));

// process data

for (var i = 0; i < inputData.length; i++) {

    inputData[i].index = i;

}

fs.writeFile('./output.json', JSON.stringify(inputData, null, 2), (err) => {

    if (err) {

        console.error(err);

        return;

    };

    console.log('Data has been processed');

});

// input.json

[

  {

    "item": "article1",

    "title": "title1"

  },

  {

    "item": "article2",

    "title": "title2"

  },

  {

    "item": "article3",

    "title": "title3"

  }

]

Run node processJSON.js to process a JSON file. The argument variable is not needed as long as you name your input file as input.json.

Nodejs execute file

Result:

vim output.json 

Output.JSON

Thank you for reading!

Jun