Motivation: Needed something robust for storing quick data and parsing that was faster programatically with added features like JS support (unlike JSON).
The problem with JSON was that before writing in large files we had to parse and then stringify
With this file format, we removed the outer brackets of an array and we can append objects/strings/booleans/numbers to the file followed by a comma without having to read the file
Parsing it is as simple as prepending an array decleration and appending array closing.
Features
New file extension .ar and .array
Supports comments, JS primitive data types, objects without quotes in prop names
Has syntax highlighting
Comes with a formatter
Extension Settings
This extension contributes the following settings:
arrayFile.formatOnSave: Enable/disable formatting of .ar files on Save.
Known Issues
[ ] Template string interpolation does not highlight ${} brackets, but works with inside it
[ ] There are no customization settings for prettier at this time
Release Notes
1.0.0
Initial release of ar-file-format-support.
Custom syntax highlighting for contents treated as JavaScript arrays.
