Quotes not preserved when reading YAML, then dumping it. about js-yaml HOT 2 CLOSED

If you read YAML and dump it, the content changes.

The content doesn't change. Only its representation does. Quotes in YAML are optional, so library may choose not to insert them.

js-yaml does not keep any information about original document (quotes, whitespace, comments) - these kind of things will get lost when dumping.

To keep that information, you'd need entirely different kind of library (not yaml loader, but yaml editor), and I'm not aware of any existing ones.

FYI, I stopped using this library and switched to writing json files.

Uhh... please look at yaml library. Or toml file format. Or json5. Or any other format that is suited for the job.

Writing config files in json is an extremely poor decision, since json is a data serialization format, not a config file format. It should never be written by humans (verbose syntax, lack of comments, etc.).

from js-yaml.

FYI, I stopped using this library and switched to writing json files. This is too buggy and requires too many hacks.

from js-yaml.