Add comment on the "manifest.json"

I want to write a chrome extension, so I need to write manifest.json, unfortunately, the IDE will not recognize the comments.

The documentation said:

It is a JSON-formatted file, with one exception: it is allowed to contain "//"-style comments.

So I am pretty sure added a comment for it is OK.

Is there any way to make the editor recognize the comments of manifest.json?

You can use the way as below,

{
  "//1": "comment 1",
  "//2": "comment 2",
  "id": "123"
}

👆 see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44700108/9935654

But I think the best way is to change the Recognized File Types to the json5

• solution 1: neovim
• solution 2: other modern IDE

solution 1: neovim

If using neovim, simply set

:set filetype=json5.

You can also consider using an autocommand to automatically set files with specific names to the json5 format.

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufRead", "BufNewFile" }, {
  pattern = "manifest.json",
  callback = function()
    vim.bo.filetype = "json5"
  end,
})

solution 2: other modern IDE