1 # 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)
3 > Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files!
10 "unicorn": /* ❤ */ "cake"
14 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.
16 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.
21 $ npm install strip-json-comments
29 "unicorn": /* ❤ */ "cake"
32 JSON.parse(stripJsonComments(json));
33 //=> {unicorn: 'cake'}
38 ### stripJsonComments(jsonString, options?)
44 Accepts a string with JSON and returns a string without comments.
55 Replace comments with whitespace instead of stripping them entirely.
65 - [strip-json-comments-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-json-comments-cli) - CLI for this module
66 - [strip-css-comments](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-css-comments) - Strip comments from CSS
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