Why Json File is pretty about lowdb

[jamiller619]

• JSON is, by definition, human readable text to store and transmit data. Minified JSON is basically the complete opposite of that.
• You can easily create an adapter to store JSON minified! It's literally the same code as JSONFile.ts. Just make a copy of that file and name it JSONMinified.ts (or whatever you want to call it) with a single change on line 21:

write(obj: T): Promise<void> {
  return this.#adapter.write(JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2))
}

to:

write(obj: T): Promise<void> {
  return this.#adapter.write(JSON.stringify(obj))
}

and boom, minified JSON.

I'm only chiming in here because I recently went through the same thought process, however, ended up coming back around, full-circle lol, in favor of using the default, pretty JSON. The space savings were not significant and if I'm truly going for a small file size, then JSON is probably a bad choice to begin with. CSV, and even traditional SQL databases, would be much better option IMO.