TOML Parser for Node.js
=======================
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[](https://nodei.co/npm/toml/)
If you haven't heard of TOML, well you're just missing out. [Go check it out now.](https://github.com/mojombo/toml) Back? Good.
TOML Spec Support
-----------------
toml-node supports version 0.4.0 the TOML spec as specified by [mojombo/toml@v0.4.0](https://github.com/mojombo/toml/blob/master/versions/en/toml-v0.4.0.md)
Installation
------------
toml-node is available via npm.
npm install toml
toml-node also works with browser module bundlers like Browserify and webpack.
Usage
-----
### Standalone
Say you have some awesome TOML in a variable called `someTomlString`. Maybe it came from the web; maybe it came from a file; wherever it came from, it came asynchronously! Let's turn that sucker into a JavaScript object.
```javascript
var toml = require('toml');
var data = toml.parse(someTomlString);
console.dir(data);
```
`toml.parse` throws an exception in the case of a parsing error; such exceptions have a `line` and `column` property on them to help identify the offending text.
```javascript
try {
toml.parse(someCrazyKnuckleHeadedTrblToml);
} catch (e) {
console.error("Parsing error on line " + e.line + ", column " + e.column +
": " + e.message);
}
```
### Streaming
As of toml-node version 1.0, the streaming interface has been removed. Instead, use a module like [concat-stream](https://npmjs.org/package/concat-stream):
```javascript
var toml = require('toml');
var concat = require('concat-stream');
var fs = require('fs');
fs.createReadStream('tomlFile.toml', 'utf8').pipe(concat(function(data) {
var parsed = toml.parse(data);
}));
```
Thanks [@ForbesLindesay](https://github.com/ForbesLindesay) for the suggestion.
### Requiring with Node.js
You can use the [toml-require package](https://github.com/BinaryMuse/toml-require) to `require()` your `.toml` files with Node.js
Live Demo
---------
You can experiment with TOML online at http://binarymuse.github.io/toml-node/, which uses the latest version of this library.
Building & Testing
------------------
toml-node uses [the PEG.js parser generator](http://pegjs.majda.cz/).
npm install
npm run build
npm test
Any changes to `src/toml.peg` requires a regeneration of the parser with `npm run build`.
toml-node is tested on Travis CI and is tested against:
* Node 0.10
* Node 0.12
* Latest stable io.js
License
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toml-node is licensed under the MIT license agreement. See the LICENSE file for more information.
