javascriptjscodeshift

Javascript templating double quotes

I have an issue where I have a file which contains my objects in the form

Dog1: {
  information: {
    color: 'red',
    name: 'Tom'
  }
}

and I am building a program which automatically populates my object from a file but the current output has the form

"Dog1": {
  "information": {
    "color": "red",
    "name": "Tom"
  }
}

My issue is that i need single or double quotes around "red" and "Tom" but i don't need it on everything else. I have tried using jscodeshift but cannot seem to get it working. Anybody got any tips for this?

Thank you very much for your time, Joe

Solution

  • Your object is a JavaScript object right? However the object is written into the file, it seems that it´s written in JSON format (JavaScript Object Notation).

    In my opinion, thats not wrong. It´s the correct way to store JavaScript objects. If you really don´t want the the quotes, you maybe need to implement your own logic for writing the object into the file.

    Update: See JSON.Stringify without quotes on properties?. That guy had the same problem and the solution was to remove the quotes after calling JSON.stringify().