gpii-grunt-mdjson-lint

This plugin uses markdown-to-ast to extract all code blocks within markdown content. Only fenced code blocks tagged with the json or json5 language will be linted:

The following will be scanned (and report an error):

```json
{
  key: "not quoted"
}
```

The following will be scanned (and will not report an error):

```json5
{
    key: "not quoted"
}
```

The following will not be scanned:

```snippet
someOperation(<garbage in>) => <garbage out>
```

Each code block is linted by attempting to parse it using either JSON.parse, or the JSON5.parse method provided by the json5 library. Errors are caught and converted to a common format that includes the information needed to identify which file, line number and column number are associated with the error. Note that the first failure in a single fenced code block may prevent you from seeing subsequent errors in the same fenced code block.

Using this Package

Install this package in your project using npm install gpii-grunt-mdjson-lint.

Then, update your Gruntfile.js to load our tasks and add a configuration option for this plugin.

module.exports = function (grunt) {
    grunt.initConfig({
        mdjsonlint: {
            src: ["./docs/*.md"]
        }
    });

    grunt.loadNpmTasks("gpii-grunt-mdjson-lint");
};

You should then be able to lint your markdown using a command like grunt mdjsonlint. If all scanned files pass the lint checks, the task will complete successfully. If there are linting errors, the filename, line and column of each failure