Importing a JSON file in Meteor

Question

I have a data.json file that I would like to load and that I have placed in the lib/ folder. What should I do in order to load that JSON into a variable in the server? Thank

Answer 1

I assume you want the json content to be represented as an object and not as a simple string.

I use js-yaml (https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml), assuming you install the npm package. You can also just copy it manually.

yaml = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('js-yaml')
fs = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fs')
content = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8')
object = yaml.load(content)

and that's it! I personally persist my json into meteor collections.