nushell/crates/nuon/README.md
Antoine Stevan ce3bc470ba
improve NUON documentation (#12717)
# Description
this PR
- moves the documentation from `lib.rs` to `README.md` while still
including it in the lib file, so that both the [crates.io
page](https://crates.io/crates/nuon) and the
[documentation](https://docs.rs/nuon/latest/nuon/) show the top-level
doc
- mention that comments are allowed in NUON
- add a JSON-NUON example
- put back the formatting of NOTE blocks in the doc

# User-Facing Changes

# Tests + Formatting

# After Submitting
2024-05-05 15:34:22 +02:00

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Support for the NUON format.
The NUON format is a superset of JSON designed to fit the feel of Nushell.
Some of its extra features are
- trailing commas are allowed
- commas are optional in lists
- quotes are not required around keys or any _bare_ string that do not contain spaces
- comments are allowed, though not preserved when using [`from_nuon`]
## Example
below is some data in the JSON format
```json
{
"name": "Some One",
"birth": "1970-01-01",
"stats": [
2544729499973429198,
687051042647753531,
6702443901704799912
]
}
```
and an equivalent piece of data written in NUON
```nuon
{
name: "Some One", # the name of the person
birth: "1970-01-01", # their date of birth
stats: [ # some dummy "stats" about them
2544729499973429198,
687051042647753531,
6702443901704799912, # note the trailing comma here...
], # and here
} # wait, are these comments in a JSON-like document?!?!
```