JSON to file

OSCC · JavaScript, Node · Oct 20, 2020

Writes a JSON object to a file.

• Use fs.writeFileSync(), template literals and JSON.stringify() to write a json object to a .json file.

const fs = require('fs');

const JSONToFile = (obj, filename) =>
  fs.writeFileSync(`${filename}.json`, JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2));

JSONToFile({ test: 'is passed' }, 'testJsonFile');
// writes the object to 'testJsonFile.json'

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