Use JSON for company profiles

[hkdobrev]

Similar to JSON Résumé and json-job.

If the company profiles are in JSON, various lists and apps could be created on top of it client-side similar to http://emoji.muan.co/ - see source: https://github.com/muan/emojilib/blob/master/emojis.json

[tedmiston]

Great idea. I've been looking for something like JSON Resume for so long. Thanks for the share.

[jessicard]

👍 Good call.

[zeke]

👏

[eddiejaoude]

Great list! Is this still part of the plan?

I have converted the markdown list of companies to json WeRockTech@bbcdff8 that way it can be moved to a web app and put on GitHub Pages

[dougaitken]

Closing and any discussion can happen in #44 to keep things central.

Will look to getting this done during Hacktoberfest 2017 (if it happens) as I think will be a nice 2-year reminder for how I got into this

[nylen]

This is basically done, the last piece to make it work was #445. However, the Markdown files are still the actual data source, mainly because this format is much easier for people to maintain. There is code in this repository that generates the data structure based on all info about each company in the list.

In order to get the JSON data, you need to call into lib/index.js in this repository, and tell it to validate and parse the README.md and company-profiles/*.md files:

~/code/remote-jobs $ node
> const { parseFromDirectory } = require( './lib' );
undefined
> const data = parseFromDirectory( '.' );
undefined
> JSON.stringify( data ).length
452861

As you can see, the full data structure is pretty large.