In this article, we’ll learn how to use comments in JSON files. We’ll see workarounds and methods used by developers to add single-line and multiple-line comments to their JSON files, the external libraries and packages for stripping comments from your files before feeding them to the regular JSON.parse() method in JavaScript and Node.js and we’ll also see simple JavaScript code for removing comments without external libraries. Finally, we’ll see the alternative formats to JSON that support comments such as JSON5 and JSONC.

JSON Doesn’t Support Comments!

As you might be aware of, JSON doesn’t support comments! But as programmers, we are used to add comments so in this article, we’ll see the possible ways that we have to use comments in our JSON files even if they are natively supported by the format.

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