I just want to do a simple thing: import a JSON file and read it within a function to return some specific data of it, but it's been really hard to do.
When on dev env, it works perfectly, but when I try to do the build, the file is not fount. It's like it's not being imported. Since I'm new with Next.JS architecture, I'm not able to find a solution by myself (read a lot of pages with help, but no success).
structure
- root
- config
- labels
data.json
index.ts
index.ts
import data from './data.json';
export type HomeLabels = typeof data.in.home;
export function getHomeLabels(language: string): HomeLabels {
return data[language as keyof typeof data].home;
}
data.json
{
"in":{
"home":{
"contact_button": "Contact",
"view_all_button": "View all"
}
},
"pt-br":{
"home":{
"contact_button": "Contato",
"view_all_button": "Ver tudo"
}
}
}
error on build
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'home')
at getHomeLabels (/home/runner/work/boutme/boutme/.next/server/chunks/261.js:42:43)
All the solutions that I found out was related to using API or getStaticsProps and using on component. But I really don't want it. I think that it's possible to do what I want (import json and read just on a function), but it's been hard.
I'm new with React and need some one with my json file Parsing problem. I am having a PerfCompare.jsx with a variable needed in the following compare. And i need this var parsing from a external JSON file(trscConfig.JSON). I am using this lines to do. but always get this SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
trscConfig.JSON
{
"server" : "http://myserver.com"
}
PerfCompare.jsx
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Form, Input, Button, Radio, Row, Table, Divider, Progress, Alert } from 'antd';
import math from 'mathjs';
import { stringify } from 'qs';
import PerffarmRunJSON from './lib/PerffarmRunJSON';
import JenkinsRunJSON from './lib/JenkinsRunJSON';
import benchmarkVariantsInfo from './lib/benchmarkVariantsInfo';
import './PerfCompare.css';
//import App_DATA from './trscConfig.JSON';
const server_2 = JSON.parse('./trscConfig.JSON').server;
Use fetch():
const response = await fetch('trscConfig.JSON');
const json = await response.json();
const server_2 = json.server;
Or, if your build tool doesn't support await yet:
fetch('trscConfig.JSON')
.then(response => response.json())
.then(json => {
const server_2 = json.server;
});
In either case, downloading the JSON file at runtime will mean the response will not be available immediately. If this is a React component, I suggest doing this in componentDidMount().
Alternatively, if the JSON file is a static asset:
import {server as server_2} from './trscConfig.JSON';
JSON.parse doesn't know how to make HTTP requests/read files - it just parses exactly what you've passed in. In this case, it's failing because it's trying to convert the literal string ./trscConfig.JSON into a JSON object!
There's two ways you could get this working:
Load in the JSON via your module bundler, as you're doing in the commented out line in your code. I believe Webpack (and most others) support this out of the box, but your configuration might have it disabled, intentionally or otherwise. It might also be because you're using uppercase file extensions - try it with a file that has .json in lowercase.
Use XMLHttpRequest, the Fetch API, or a third-party HTTP client library to download the JSON at runtime, and then parse the downloaded text.
I've noticed a few cases where I've seen something like the following:
// /reducers/reducer1.js
export default function reducer1(state = {}, action){
// etc...
}
// /reducers/reducer2.js
export default function reducer2(state = {}, action){
// etc...
}
// /reducers/index.js
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import reducer1 from './reducer1';
import reducer2 from './reducer2';
export default combineReducers({
reducer1,
reducer2
})
// /store.js
import masterReducer from './reducers';
export default function makeStore(){
// etc...
}
Notice the last "file" where we call import masterReducer from './reducers' - A few people seem to believe this should import the default export from the index.js file.
Is this actually part of the specification? - my interpretation/question is that this is the result of many folks using WebPack v1 which translates import statements into CommonJS-style requires statements? Or will this break in WebPack v2 with "official" import/export support?
Is this actually part of the specification?
No. How module identifiers ('./reducers' in your case) are resolved to the actual modules is left to the implementation of the module loader/bundler, it's not specificed by ES6. And it doesn't seem to be specified in CommonJs either.
This is just how node does it - when requiring a directory, it's index.js file will be used. Bundlers like browserify or webpack followed this convention (for compat reasons).
In Webpack 2.0 (#2.1.0-beta6), if I go to import a file that points to a file that doesn't exist, I get a build time error.
//x.js
import { foo } from './y'
//y.js
export function foo () { return 5 }
If I go to import an export that doesn't exist from a file that exists, I get a runtime error.
//x.js
import { baz } from './y'
//y.js
export function foo () { return 5 }
Is there a way to have Webpack check exports in the same way it resolves files?
//webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
query: {
presets: ['es2015-native-modules']
}
],
}
}
I believe a runtime error in this case is correct behavior. You probably aren't getting a runtime error from the import itself, but only when you try and use it it is undefined.
A file existing or not can be easily determined by a system call during build time. However, a module exporting a given value or not can be changed at runtime - not that that is a good idea - so Webpack doesn't make a build time decision as to whether or not it should bail out.
Consider the following code:
// hats.js
var hats = undefined;
if (Math.random() > 0.5) {
hats = 'i have a hat!';
}
export const HATS = hats;
// index.js
import { HATS } from './hats';
console.log('hats is:', HATS}
Webpack can't know at build time whether or not HATS is going to exist at run time, so it won't error out when I try and import hats. However, HATS will correctly be either undefined or 'i have a hat!' when logged during execution. Similarly, if i remove the export line from hats.js, it will simply always report undefined, because Webpack cannot tell the difference after transpilation - HATS is simply undefined still. If I remove hats.js completely, Webpack knows something is definitely wrong and errors out.
As of webpack#2.1-beta15, warnings have now been added for imports of ES6 exports.
How can I access a JSON file in ECMAScript 6?
The following doesn't work:
import config from '../config.json'
This works fine if I try to import a JavaScript file.
https://www.stefanjudis.com/snippets/how-to-import-json-files-in-es-modules-node-js/
ES modules are still reasonably new in Node.js land (they're stable since Node 14). Modules come with a built-in module system, and features such as top-level await.
I read an informative post on ES modules by Pawel Grzybek and learned that you can't import JSON files in ES modules today.
import info from `./package.json` assert { type: `json` };
const { default: info } = await import("./package.json", {
assert: {
type: "json",
},
});
That's a real bummer because I'm pretty used to doing require calls such as const data = require('./some-file.json') in Node.js.
But can you use import assertions in Node.js today?
At the time of writing, the current Node.js LTS (v18.12) still marks import assertions as experimental.
This post explains ways to deal with JSON in ES modules if you don't want to use the experimental feature yet.
Option 1: Read and parse JSON files yourself
The Node.js documentation advises to use the fs module and do the work of reading the files and parsing it yourself.
import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
const json = JSON.parse(
await readFile(
new URL('./some-file.json', import.meta.url)
)
);
Option 2: Leverage the CommonJS require function to load JSON files
The documentation also states that you can use createRequire to load JSON files. This approach is the way Pawel advises in his blog post.
createRequire allows you to construct a CommonJS require function to use typical CommonJS features such as reading JSON in your Node.js EcmaScript modules.
import { createRequire } from "module";
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const data = require("./data.json");
In TypeScript or using Babel, you can import json file in your code.
// Babel
import * as data from './example.json';
const word = data.name;
console.log(word); // output 'testing'
Reference:
https://hackernoon.com/import-json-into-typescript-8d465beded79
Importing JSON using ES modules was submitted as feature to TC39 in mid 2020, and is (at the time of this edit) in stage 3, which is the last stage before being accepted in to the spec (see https://github.com/tc39/proposal-json-modules for more details). Once landed, you will be able to use it as:
import someName from "./some/path/to/your/file.json";
Where someName is effectively the name of the variable for the JS object described by the JSON data. (And of course, note that this imports JavaScript from a JSON source, it does not "import JSON").
If you're using a modern enough bundler (like esbuild or the like) or you're using a recent enough transpiler (like babel) then you can already use this syntax without having to worry about support.
Alternatively, if you have the luxury of ownership of JSON files you can also turn your JSON into valid JS files with a minimum of extra code:
config.js
export default
{
// my json here...
}
then...
import config from '../config.js'
does not allow import of existing .json files, but does a job.
Unfortunately, ES6/ES2015 doesn't support loading JSON via the module import syntax. But...
There are many ways you can do it. Depending on your needs, you can either look into how to read files in JavaScript (window.FileReader could be an option if you're running in the browser) or use some other loaders as described in other questions (assuming you are using NodeJS).
IMO simplest way is probably to just put the JSON as a JS object into an ES6 module and export it. That way, you can just import it where you need it.
Also, worth noting if you're using Webpack, importing of JSON files will work by default (since webpack >= v2.0.0).
import config from '../config.json';
If you're using node you can:
const fs = require('fs');
const { config } = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('../config.json'));
OR
const evaluation = require('../config.json');
// evaluation will then contain all props, so evaluation.config
// or you could use:
const { config } = require('../config.json');
Else:
// config.js
{
// json object here
}
// script.js
import { config } from '../config.js';
OR
import * from '../config.json'
I'm using babel+browserify and I have a JSON file in a directory ./i18n/locale-en.json with translations namespace (to be used with ngTranslate).
Without having to export anything from the JSON file (which btw is not possible), I could make a default import of its content with this syntax:
import translationsJSON from './i18n/locale-en';
Depending on your build tooling and the data structure within the JSON file, it may require importing the default.
import { default as config } from '../config.json';
e.g. usage within Next.js
In a browser with fetch (basically all of them now):
At the moment, we can't import files with a JSON mime type, only files with a JavaScript mime type. It might be a feature added in the future (official discussion).
fetch('./file.json')
.then(response => response.json())
.then(obj => console.log(obj))
In Node.js v13.2+:
It currently requires the --experimental-json-modules flag, otherwise it isn't supported by default.
Try running
node --input-type module --experimental-json-modules --eval "import obj from './file.json'; console.log(obj)"
and see the obj content outputted to console.
Thanks to all the people who proposed and implemented JSON modules and Import Assertions. Since Chrome 91, you can import JSON directly, for example:
// test.json
{
"hello": "world"
}
// Static Import
import json from "./test.json" assert { type: "json" };
console.log(json.hello);
// Dynamic Import
const { default: json } = await import("./test.json", { assert: { type: "json" } });
console.log(json.hello);
// Dynamic Import
import("./test.json", { assert: { type: "json" } })
.then(module => console.log(module.default.hello));
Note: other browsers may not yet implement this feature at the moment.
A bit late, but I just stumbled across the same problem while trying to provide analytics for my web app that involved sending app version based on the package.json version.
Configuration is as follows: React + Redux, Webpack 3.5.6
The json-loader isn't doing much since Webpack 2+, so after some fiddling with it, I ended up removing it.
The solution that actually worked for me, was simply using fetch.
While this will most probably enforce some code changes to adapt to the async approach, it worked perfectly, especially given the fact that fetch will offer json decoding on the fly.
So here it is:
fetch('../../package.json')
.then(resp => resp.json())
.then((packageJson) => {
console.log(packageJson.version);
});
Do keep in mind, that since we're talking about package.json specifically here, the file will not usually come bundled in your production build (or even dev for that matter), so you will have to use the CopyWebpackPlugin to have access to it when using fetch.
Simply do this:
import * as importedConfig from '../config.json';
Then use it like the following:
const config = importedConfig.default;
Adding to the other answers, in Node.js it is possible to use require to read JSON files even inside ES modules. I found this to be especially useful when reading files inside other packages, because it takes advantage of Node's own module resolution strategy to locate the file.
require in an ES module must be first created with createRequire.
Here is a complete example:
import { createRequire } from 'module';
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const packageJson = require('typescript/package.json');
console.log(`You have TypeScript version ${packageJson.version} installed.`);
In a project with TypeScript installed, the code above will read and print the TypeScript version number from package.json.
For NodeJS v12 and above, --experimental-json-modules would do the trick, without any help from babel.
https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v14.x/api/esm.html#esm_experimental_json_modules
But it is imported in commonjs form, so import { a, b } from 'c.json' is not yet supported.
But you can do:
import c from 'c.json';
const { a, b } = c;
import data from "./resource.json”
is possible in Chrome 91.
JSON modules are now supported. This allows developers to statically import JSON instead of relying on the fetch() function which dynamically retrieves it.
https://www.stefanjudis.com/snippets/how-to-import-json-files-in-es-modules/
A more elegant solution is to use the CommonJS require function
createRequire construct a CommonJS require function so that you can use typical CommonJS features such as reading JSON
import { createRequire } from "module";
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const data = require("./data.json");
importing JSON files are still experimental. It can be supported via the below flag.
--experimental-json-modules
otherwise you can load your JSON file relative to import.meta.url with fs directly:-
import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
const config = JSON.parse(await readFile(new URL('../config.json', import.meta.url)));
you can also use module.createRequire()
import { createRequire } from 'module';
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const config = require('../config.json');
I used it installing the plugin "babel-plugin-inline-json-import" and then in .balberc add the plugin.
Install plugin
npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-inline-json-import
Config plugin in babelrc
"plugin": [
"inline-json-import"
]
And this is the code where I use it
import es from './es.json'
import en from './en.json'
export const dictionary = { es, en }
I'm using
vuejs, version: 2.6.12
vuex, version: 3.6.0
vuex-i18n, version: 1.13.1.
My solution is:
messages.js:
import Vue from 'vue'
import Vuex from 'vuex';
import vuexI18n from 'vuex-i18n';
import translationsPl from './messages_pl'
import translationsEn from './messages_en'
Vue.use(Vuex);
export const messages = new Vuex.Store();
Vue.use(vuexI18n.plugin, messages);
Vue.i18n.add('en', translationsEn);
Vue.i18n.add('pl', translationsPl);
Vue.i18n.set('pl');
messages_pl.json:
{
"loadingSpinner.text:"Ładowanie..."
}
messages_en.json:
{
"loadingSpinner.default.text":"Loading..."
}
majn.js
import {messages} from './i18n/messages'
Vue.use(messages);
let filePath = '../../data/my-file.json'
let arrayImport = await import(filePath, {
assert: { type: "json" },
});
const inputArray = arrayImport.default
console.log('result', inputArray)
More information here: v8 - Dynamic import().
As said by Azad, the correct answer is to load the file with fs.readFileSync() (or any of the asynchronous variants such as fs.readFile with callback or fs.promises.readFile with promises/await, then parse the JSON with JSON.parse()
const packageJsonRaw = fs.readFileSync('location/to/package.json' )
const packageJson = JSON.parse(packageJsonRaw )
Webpack/Babel options are not practical unless you are already using that set up.
Make sure the type attribute is set to module because we are using the ES6 Modules syntax.
And here is how we would import a JSON file in our index.js file.
import myJson from './example.json' assert {type: 'json'};
import a JSON file in ECMAScript 6
import myJson from './example.json' assert {type: 'json'};
https://www.stefanjudis.com/snippets/how-to-import-json-files-in-es-modules-node-js/
ES modules are still reasonably new in Node.js land (they're stable since Node 14). Modules come with a built-in module system, and features such as top-level await.
I read an informative post on ES modules by Pawel Grzybek and learned that you can't import JSON files in ES modules today.
import info from `./package.json` assert { type: `json` };
const { default: info } = await import("./package.json", {
assert: {
type: "json",
},
});
That's a real bummer because I'm pretty used to doing require calls such as const data = require('./some-file.json') in Node.js.
But can you use import assertions in Node.js today?
At the time of writing, the current Node.js LTS (v18.12) still marks import assertions as experimental.
This post explains ways to deal with JSON in ES modules if you don't want to use the experimental feature yet.
Option 1: Read and parse JSON files yourself
The Node.js documentation advises to use the fs module and do the work of reading the files and parsing it yourself.
import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
const json = JSON.parse(
await readFile(
new URL('./some-file.json', import.meta.url)
)
);
Option 2: Leverage the CommonJS require function to load JSON files
The documentation also states that you can use createRequire to load JSON files. This approach is the way Pawel advises in his blog post.
createRequire allows you to construct a CommonJS require function to use typical CommonJS features such as reading JSON in your Node.js EcmaScript modules.
import { createRequire } from "module";
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const data = require("./data.json");
The file structure with the json extension is used to transfer data, the json file data can be retrieved locally by sending a request using the fetch command.
In the following example, the data of the count.json file is received
// count.json
fetch("./count.json")
.then((response) => { return response.json(); })
.then((data) => console.log(data));