grunt-json-remove-fields

A Grunt task to remove specified fields in JSON files. Personally, I used this plugin to remove devDependencies field to the package.json file used in the production environment.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-json-remove-fields --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-json-remove-fields');

The "json_remove_fields" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named json_remove_fields to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  json_remove_fields: {
    package_json: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    some_other_json: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

src

Type: String

The JSON file where do you want to remove some field.

dest

Type: String Default value: The same value defined in src option.

The destination JSON file with removed fields. If this option is not defined than the file specified in src will be overwritten.

fields

Type: Array

A list of fields to remove.

space

Type: Integer or String Default value: 2

The same use of the third argument of the JSON.stringify Javascript method. See here for more details.

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the default options are used to do something with whatever. So if the testing file has the content Testing and the 123 file had the content 1 2 3, the generated result would be Testing, 1 2 3.

grunt.initConfig({
    //      
    json_remove_fields: {
      package_json: {
          src: 'package.json',
          dest: 'dist/package.json',
          fields: ['devDependencies']
      },
      some_other_json: {
          src: 'color.json',
          dest: 'dist/color.json',
          fields: ['magenta', 'black'],
          space: '\t'
      }
    }
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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