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Re:Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an o... by smt88 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:12AM (#26283070)
Are all features available when writing the files in JSON format?

YAML is a catastrophe. I have spent hours trying to fix a whitespace error in a YAML file that silently changed the meaning of my document.

I'm interested in this but absolutely wouldn't gamble my time on it unless I could do everything with JSON-formatted YAML.

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Re:Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an o... by SamTolmay on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:29AM (#26283135)
Can completely understand. We support both YAML and JSON. This isn’t documented that well, so we can add a section in the docs on that.
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Re:Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an o... by gervwyk on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:33AM (#26283152)
Hi, Yes. you can switch over to JSON as you like. You can write everything in JSON or mix it up if that is useful. Like reference JSON files in your YAML using the _ref operator.

Hope you give it a try!

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Re:Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an o... by dikaio on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:39PM (#26287517)
Couldn’t a code formatter solve your issue?
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Re:Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an o... by smt88 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @04:32PM (#26288370)
No
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