How to import a JSON file in ECMAScript 6

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How can I access a JSON file in ECMAScript 6  The following doesn t work  import config from     config json   This works fine if I try to import a JavaScript file

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I m using  vuejs  version  2 6 12 vuex  version  3 6 0 vuex-i18n  version  1 13 1   My solution is  messages js  import Vue from  vue  import Vuex from  vuex   import vuexI18n from  vuex-i18n   import translationsPl from    messages pl  import translationsEn from    messages en   Vue use Vuex    export const messages   new Vuex Store     Vue use vuexI18n plugin  messages    Vue i18n add  en   translationsEn   Vue i18n add  pl   translationsPl    Vue i18n set  pl     messages pl json         quot loadingSpinner text  quot Ladowanie    quot     messages en json         quot loadingSpinner default text quot   quot Loading    quot     majn js import  messages  from    i18n messages  Vue use messages

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In TypeScript or using Babel  you can import json file in your code      Babel  import   as data from    example json   const word   data name  console log word      output  testing    Reference   https   hackernoon com import-json-into-typescript-8d465beded79

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A bit late  but I just stumbled across the same problem while trying to provide analytics for my web app that involved sending app version based on the package json version   Configuration is as follows  React   Redux  Webpack 3 5 6  The json-loader isn t doing much since Webpack 2   so after some fiddling with it  I ended up removing it   The solution that actually worked for me  was simply using fetch  While this will most probably enforce some code changes to adapt to the async approach  it worked perfectly  especially given the fact that fetch will offer json decoding on the fly   So here it is     fetch        package json      then resp   gt  resp json       then  packageJson    gt        console log packageJson version           Do keep in mind  that since we re talking about package json specifically here  the file will not usually come bundled in your production build  or even dev for that matter   so you will have to use the CopyWebpackPlugin to have access to it when using fetch

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I used it installing the plugin  quot babel-plugin-inline-json-import quot  and then in  balberc add the plugin   Install plugin npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-inline-json-import  Config plugin in babelrc  quot plugin quot      quot inline-json-import quot      And this is the code where I use it import es from    es json  import en from    en json   export const dictionary     es  en

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In a browser with fetch  basically all of them now    At the moment  we can t import files with a JSON mime type  only files with a JavaScript mime type  It might be a feature added in the future  official discussion    fetch    file json      then response   gt  response json       then obj   gt  console log obj     In Node js v13 2    It currently requires the --experimental-json-modules flag  otherwise it isn t supported by default   Try running  node --input-type module --experimental-json-modules --eval  import obj from    file json   console log obj     and see the obj content outputted to console

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importing JSON files are still experimental  It can be supported via the below flag   --experimental-json-modules  otherwise you can load your JSON file relative to import meta url with fs directly - import   readFile   from  fs promises   const config   JSON parse await readFile new URL     config json   import meta url      you can also use module createRequire   import   createRequire   from  module   const require   createRequire import meta url   const config   require     config json

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For NodeJS v12 and above  --experimental-json-modules would do the trick  without any help from babel  https   nodejs org docs latest-v14 x api esm html esm experimental json modules But it is imported in commonjs form  so import   a  b   from  c json  is not yet supported  But you can do  import c from  c json   const   a  b     c

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Simply do this  import   as importedConfig from     config json    Then use it like the following  const config   importedConfig default

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Depending on your build tooling and the data structure within the JSON file  it may require importing the default    import   default as config   from     config json     e g  usage within Next js

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Unfortunately ES6 ES2015 doesn t support loading JSON via the module import syntax  But     There are many ways you can do it  Depending on your needs you can either look into how to read files in JavaScript  window FileReader could be an option if you re running in the browser  or use some other loaders as described in other questions  assuming you are using NodeJS     IMO simplest way is probably to just put the JSON as a JS object into an ES6 module and export it  That way you can just import it where you need it   Also worth noting if you re using Webpack  importing of JSON files will work by default  since webpack  gt   v2 0 0    import config from     config json

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Adding to the other answers  in Node js it is possible to use require to read JSON files even inside ES modules  I found this to be especially useful when reading files inside other packages  because it takes advantage of Node s own module resolution strategy to locate the file  require in an ES module must be first created with createRequire  Here is a complete example  import   createRequire   from  module    const require   createRequire import meta url   const packageJson   require  typescript package json    console log  You have TypeScript version   packageJson version  installed      In a project with TypeScript installed  the code above will read and print the TypeScript version number from package json

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I m using babel browserify and I have a JSON file in a directory   i18n locale-en json with translations namespace  to be used with ngTranslate    Without having to export anything from the JSON file  which btw is not possible   I could make a default import of its content with this syntax   import translationsJSON from    i18n locale-en

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A simple workaround   config js  export default        my json here        then     import config from     config js    does not allow import of existing  json files  but does a job

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If you re using node you can   const fs   require  fs     const   config     JSON parse fs readFileSync     config json    utf8       May be incorrect  haven t used fs in a long time   OR  const evaluation   require     config json       evaluation will then contain all props  so evaluation config    or you could use  const   config     require     config json      Else      config js      json object here       script js  import   config   from     config js     OR  import   from     config json

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