Parsing YAML in JS

[nightscape]

Hi all,

I've been having good success using js-yaml along with Circe to parse YAML in JS, so I thought I'd post a short comment here:

// build.sbt
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "org.scalablytyped" %%% "js-yaml" % "3.12-dt-20200625Z-862e6d",
  "io.circe" %%% "circe-scalajs" % circeVersion
),
Compile / npmDependencies += "js-yaml" -> "3.12"

import io.circe.Decoder

import io.circe.scalajs._
import typings.jsYaml.{mod => yaml}

import scala.util.Try
object YamlDecoder {
  def parseAndDecode[T : Decoder](s: String): Either[Throwable, T] = {
    Try(yaml.load(s)).toEither.flatMap(decodeJs[T](_))
  }
}

Would something like this be worthy to put into circe-yaml itself?

[armanbilge]

I thought about this too, but since the intermediate representation in this case is effectively universal (i.e., Javascript Objects) I see no reason to prescribe a specific JS implementation for this.

[armanbilge]

I've now published a fork of this lib that uses Virtus Lab Scala Yaml and is cross-published for JVM and JS.
https://github.com/armanbilge/circe-scala-yaml/releases/tag/v0.0.1