History

Hjson was born out of frustration while editing JSON config files (e.g. package.json).

• 2014-03-19: First draft
• 2014-05-09: Added multiline strings.
• 2014-12-02: Added mime type and file extension.
• 2015-01-02: Added // and /**/ comment support
• 2015-01-06: Simplified the syntax for quoteless strings. Previously unquoted strings starting with a number, true, false or null were not allowed.
• 2015-01-11: Fixed multiline strings: OS/file independent (EOL is always \n). Also the last LF is removed to allow for better formatting.
• 2015-01-11: Simplified the syntax for quoteless keys. Previously only alphanumeric keys were allowed without quotes.
• 2015-05-06: Allow root braces to be omitted.
• 2016-09-27: Deprecate optional root braces.
• 2017-07-13: Added support for single quoted strings.