Ion-JS is a JavaScript library for Ion -- this is currently alpha software and is subject to change. The library allows for reading/writing Ion data from within JavaScript code.
For more information on Ion have a look at the Ion Specification as well as some of the other Ion language specific libraries such as
You can use ion-js either as a Node.js module or inside an html page.
- Add
ion-jsto your dependencies usingnpmnpm install --save-dev ion-js - Use the library to read/write ion data. Here is an example that reads Ion data from a JavaScript string
Try it yourself.
var ionJs = require("ion-js") var ionData = "{ hello: \"Ion\" }"; var ionReader = ionJs.makeReader(ionData); ionReader.next(); ionReader.stepIn(); ionReader.next(); var hello = ionReader.fieldName(); var ion = ionReader.stringValue(); ionReader.stepOut(); console.log(ion.concat(", ").concat(hello));
You can include the Ion-js bundle (ES5 compatible) using the URLs
These will create and initialize window.ion which has the exact API as our npm package. Here is an example
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
<script src="scripts/ion-bundle.min.js"></script>
<!-- more HTML/JS code that can now use `window.ion` to create/write Ion -->
</head>
</html>- Ion
- Ion Specification
- Ion Cookbook uses the Java library for its examples.
- Ion C
- Ion Java
- Ion Python
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