YAML as JSON Custom Editor

I think that YAML is messy and unnecessarily hard to read once it is in anyway non trivial. I'd prefer to work with a JSON file. So this editor aims to let you transparently open YAML files as JSON, edit them as JSON, but whilst saving they will be converted back YAML and saved as such.

NOTE: This editor cannot work on all YAML. YAML cryptically advertises itself as "superset of JSON". This just means that you can convert any JSON to YAML, but there are a few 'extras' supported in YAML that cannot be converted to JSON. So if you try to open a YAML file that cannot be converted to JSON then this cannot be used.

TODO list

• Retain comments! (create grammar to read the yaml and comments and template with something like ejs to transform out to json with comments)
• Error feedback when you open a YAML file that could not be translated to JSON.

DONE list

• Theme the inner editors with a similar color kind to the hosting vscode instances current theme.
• Error feedback when you currently have JSON that cannot be parsed and therefore is not currently going to be used.
• Column resizing.
• Allow choosing of yaml preferences (single/double quotes etc..)

Debugging the edtior

• Open this example in VS Code 1.46+
• npm install
• npm run watch or npm run compile
• F5 to start debugging

Open the example files from the exampleFiles directory.