# strip-json-comments [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/sindresorhus/strip-json-comments.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/github/sindresorhus/strip-json-comments) > Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files! This is now possible: ```js { // Rainbows "unicorn": /* ❤ */ "cake" } ``` It will replace single-line comments `//` and multi-line comments `/**/` with whitespace. This allows JSON error positions to remain as close as possible to the original source. Also available as a [Gulp](https://github.com/sindresorhus/gulp-strip-json-comments)/[Grunt](https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-strip-json-comments)/[Broccoli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/broccoli-strip-json-comments) plugin. ## Install ``` $ npm install strip-json-comments ``` ## Usage ```js const json = `{ // Rainbows "unicorn": /* ❤ */ "cake" }`; JSON.parse(stripJsonComments(json)); //=> {unicorn: 'cake'} ``` ## API ### stripJsonComments(jsonString, options?) #### jsonString Type: `string` Accepts a string with JSON and returns a string without comments. #### options Type: `object` ##### whitespace Type: `boolean`\ Default: `true` Replace comments with whitespace instead of stripping them entirely. ## Benchmark ``` $ npm run bench ``` ## Related - [strip-json-comments-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-json-comments-cli) - CLI for this module - [strip-css-comments](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-css-comments) - Strip comments from CSS ---

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