@dep/json-layer 🗂️

A lightweight, type-safe JSON-to-TypeScript compiler and watcher for Deno.

Features ✨

• ⚡ Incremental Builds: Caches file modification times to skip unchanged files.
• 🛡️ Schema Validation: Validate JSON content with custom schemas per group.
• 🏗️ Auto-Imports: Generates a main.ts with static JSON imports.
• 🔄 Watch Mode: Automatically rebuilds when JSON files change.
• 🚫 Path Exclusions: Exclude files or directories from processing.

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Installation 📦

• Deno:

  deno add jsr:@dep/json-layer
  deno install -A -n json-layer jsr:@dep/json-layer/cli
  

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Usage 🎯

CLI 💻

# Build content from ./content
json-layer build

# Watch for changes
json-layer build --watch

# Custom output directory
json-layer build --outDir ./dist/data

# Custom config file
json-layer build -c ./custom.config.ts

# Exclude paths
json-layer build --exclude drafts --exclude temp/

API 🧩

import { builder, watcher } from '@dep/json-layer';

await builder();

// Or watch for changes
await watcher();

Configure the build with json-layer.config.ts:

import { defineConfig } from '@dep/json-layer';
import { s } from '@dep/schema';

export default defineConfig({
  contentDir: './content',
  outDir: './.json-layer',
  docType: 'Content',

  schemas: {
    ContentRoot: s.object({
      title: s.string(),
    }),
  },
});

Generated data is available through the generated main.ts:

import { ContentRoot } from './.json-layer/main.ts';

console.log(ContentRoot);

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License 📄

MIT License – see LICENSE for details.

Author: Estarlin R (estarlincito.com)