During the creation of the project, I learned:

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• To write tests on Jest
• Read files on Node.js
• Parsing data from json, yml, ini
• Build AST and work with it
• Working with recursion
• Building an application interface based on the library commander.js

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• About
• Installation
  • npm package
  • build
• Usage
• Options
• Examples formatters
  • Stylish
  • Plain
  • JSON

About

This program for working in the console, which allows to detect differences between three data formats (json, yml, ini) and output them in three different styles ('stylish', 'plain text' and 'json'). You can use different file formats for comparison (for example, json and ini).

Installation

You can install gendiff with npm or build it from source.
You must have node.js installed on your computer (version 14.0 or higher).

npm package

To install gendiff using npm run

npm i -g gendiff-gkoil

build

1. Clone the project on your computer

   git clone git@github.com:GKoil/GenDiff.git
   

2. Install dependencies

   npm i
   

3. Build this project

   make publish
   

4. Install it

   make link
   

Usage

Type gendiff in the console and pass the path parameters to the files

gendiff ~/project1/before.json ~/project2/after.json

Also you can youse difference output formats

Options

-V
Find out the version
Example:

gendiff -V

-h
Get help in console
Example:

gendiff -h

-f
Choose output stylish format.
Example:

gendiff -f plain file1.json file2.json

Examples

Stylish

Plain

JSON