Wow, great thing... but... how do I use this in practice ?

[jmfayard]

Sorry to sound stupid, but I need exactly your utility because of this

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19342628/chromes-webstore-server-reject-an-extension-with-error-the-manifest-must-def

So I would had hope a very simple webpage where I can quickly remove the problem to see if the problem come frome here.

There is none ok. I'm not a javascript developer, but I know that this node.js and npm things are useful, so I install them on my macbook pro

but since there are no docs, I made an error
It's not https://npmjs.org/package/json-minify (doesn't allow comments)
It's https://npmjs.org/package/jsonminify (very different !)

ok, so I install the second one

but everything is a library there.
No command line utiliy that I can use to convert my manifest-with-comments.json file that a human can understand to manifest.json file that a computer can understand

Sure I should know python or node or... but I don't know enough to do that... and I'm by far not the only one that would benefit from your tool

OK, so for this time I will just use vim to remove comments, but I hope I can Read The Fine Documentation next time :-D

[getify]

Not quite sure what your question is... ?

[jmfayard]

I need to be able to minify a given json file from the command-line
(I'm on macosx, but with homebrew, node, python, ... everything installed) so that I can do

`$ jsonminify manifest-with-comments.json --output manifest.json

manifest-with-comments.json being a file in https://github.com/internaciulo/search-tab-in-chrome-s-omnibox

This is probably possible, but a Fine Documentation is needed for ignorant people like me.

The question then is : could you or someone else write that Fine Documentation ?

[getify]

No such command-line tool exists in this project. I would suggest asking the maintainer of that npm package if they'll make a command-line tool. It's pretty easy to do, but it just hasn't been done here. I would accept a pull request from someone if they implemented a good one.