Question

I am trying to read parameters from a YAML file into Javascript. Is there any good library to do this?

I’ve tried these libraries: https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml and http://code.google.com/p/javascript-yaml-parser/

but both libraries only have functions that parse YAML when it is given as a string, instead of parsing straight out of a .yml or .yaml file. Are there any parsers that read YAML from a file and convert them to JS objects?

Answer 1

js-yaml does. I found this by Googling “node js yaml” because reading from files in JavaScript is done server side with node.js (or something like it), not from a browser.

The README for js-yaml begins

usage: js-yaml [-h] [-v] [-c] [-j] [-t] file

Positional arguments:

file File with YAML document(s)

That is pretty strong evidence that it does process YAML directly from files.