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evertonfuller
This is the funnest thing I've seen in weeks in regards to tech. Nice job. And looks like a nice tool too.
joelrunyon
I'm not a developer - but this is funny.
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rane
How are you supposed to exit the REPL? I end up with empty braces in the file.

  ~ ❯❯❯ derulo hello
  Entering Derulo interactive JSON builder.
  prompt: key:  foo
  prompt: value:  bar
  prompt: key:  %
  ~ ❯❯❯ cat hello.json
  {}%
lavelle
Yeah, as a quick hack I made it so typing 'end' for a key or value exits it. This is obviously a valid key or value though, so something else is needed.

Maybe some control sequence would work? Not sure how you handle those in Node.

lavelle
Fixed now. Just type Ctrl-C. Thanks for the report.
rane
How about Ctrl-D as well. Probably makes a bit more sense.
nailer
+1, Ctrl D is interrupt, and bash, node, python, etc. use it to quit.
lavelle
I think I'll keep Ctrl+D for quitting the whole program, Ctrl+C for just finishing the REPL and going to the save/discard prompt.
frankblizzard
please add a feature to re-order properties alphabetically, that would be super useful. derulo package wiggle ;)
farmdve
If Jason Derulo finds out about this, he might sue :P There was an instance with Kanye West and the altcoin Coineye which he destroyed.
lavelle
I love the idea of Jason Derulo becoming aware of the existence of a Node.js module.
christiangenco
The name is funny, but after a minute of clicking around the repo I'm still not sure what this actually does.

The linked help text for your `Usage Examples` isn't very helpful either.

How about an animated gif of you... adding multiple key-value pairs to be written to the file?

lavelle
Nice idea. That could definitely explain things faster than a description of it. I'll make one this afternoon.
predius
Understood immediately when I saw it, thanks to that!