jsonOptions

  • property
config.jsonOptions {Object}  

Provides options that can be applied to JSON loading. The JSON extension has the following options:

Object

Properties

  1. transform {function(load, data)}Optional

    A function that allows you to transform the JSON object that will be used as the module value.

    steal.config({
  jsonOptions: {
    transform: function(load, data) {
      // Delete secret data
      delete data._secret;
      return data;
    }
  }
});
    • load {Object}

      The load object for this module. Use this if you need to know the module's name or other metadata to determine how to transform it.

    • data {Object}

      The raw JSON data parsed by JSON.parse.

Use

jsonOptions is useful when your app (or one of your dependencies is importing a JSON file that isn't meant to be exposed in production. For example many packages do:

var pkg = require("./package.json");

Which will be imported by Steal. However the package.json contains metadata include paths on your filesystem that you likely don't want exposed by a web-server.

Typically code only needs their version for a few properties, such as the version. Using the transform function we can remove all others:

steal.config({
  jsonOptions: {
    transform: function(load, data) {
      // Delete every prop by `version`
      // Only allow the version prop to be exposed
      return {
        version: data.version
      };
    }
  }
});

When compiled every other property will be excluded from the build.

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