NOML

Non Overcomplicated, Minimal Language

By a high school student, under 25 LOC.

This repository contains everything there is to know about Noml because there isn't much to know anyway.

Objectives

Noml aims to oversimplify the overcomplicated world of config files. It is a minimal language that is *non overcomplicated by definition. It also aims to be tiny, with the entire language being under 25 lines of code.

Contents

• NOML
  • Objectives
  • Contents
  • Example
  • Features
    • Small

Example

title = NOML Example

owner
  name = Tom Preston-Werner

database
  server = 192.168.1.1
  enabled = true

Features

Small

No need to brag about how small it is, here have the entire source code.

export function parse(code) {
  const configMap = {};
  let currentSegment;

  code.split`\n`.forEach((line = line.trim()) => {
    if (line) {
      if (line.includes("=")) {
        const [key, rawValue] = line.split("=").map((str) => str.trim());
        const value =
          rawValue.startsWith('"') && rawValue.endsWith('"')
            ? rawValue.slice(1, -1)
            : !isNaN(rawValue)
            ? +rawValue
            : rawValue.toLowerCase() === "true"
            ? true
            : rawValue.toLowerCase() === "false"
            ? false
            : rawValue;

        if (currentSegment) configMap[currentSegment][key] = value;
        else configMap[key] = value;
      } else (currentSegment = line), (configMap[currentSegment] = {});
    }
  });

  return configMap;
}

ps. you probably shouldn't use this in production.